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Last week we were in Alaska again and, while it's always a good trip, it brings some challenges both physical and emotional. From MSP...

1968 was a tumultuous year of protest. Anti-government and anti-authoritarian sentiment, amongst a host of other issues, resulted in...

We're attempting to get a couples with young children small group off the ground with some people at our church and had our first little...

Until very recently I knew the name Burt Reynolds, but to be honest I think I'd only completed one of his movies, the original The...

This spring I developed an idea to build a sandbox for our kids and wanted to get it done about as quickly as possible. It became a...

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord , the Allied invasion of France during World War II. It was the largest...

As a kid I was relayed the old wives' tale that men inherit their hair from their maternal grandfather and, since mine was completely...

I've been struggling with what whiskey post to do next, mostly thinking it would be another individual bottle. Then I realized I had...

Since learning my cholesterol rose rapidly in the last year or so (see here), I've pretty successfully changed my diet. This is an update...

After we finished The Hobbit I was determined to regularly keep reading better, longer books to our firstborn. The next book seemed...

Maybe you've heard about the new show from FX (and Hulu) called Shōgun . It's a mini-series, meaning one season only, and is an...

I've been reading Polybius, 'The Histories' (or according to Penguin Classics, 'The Rise of the Roman Empire'). A second century BC Greek...

I'm sure I've said in the past how kid #1, our son, is basically my Mini-Me. It's not a reference to how he looks, it's that he generally...

The original plan for Arizona was to write up Chase Field, the home ballpark of the Arizona Diamondbacks. We saw a game there for the...

As I've said in the past (The Cactus League), we have family in Arizona and we travel down with some regularity, maybe once a year. At...

I recently finished reading The Hobbit to my five year old. It was easily the longest, most complex book we've read to him in totality (I...

Two things have Japan currently at the forefront of my mind. First, Shohei Ohtani and U.S. newcomer Yoshinobu Yamamoto joining the...

The first year with a kid can be a challenge for a dad. It's hard to connect with a little baby like a mother does, we don't have the...

Dune: Part 2 (2024) is in theaters now and I made sure to see it in IMAX opening weekend. It was great fun to attend an event movie with...

It's cliche right now to say that this or that movie couldn't be made today. There are cases where it's true, however, though it's...