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Some of our neighbors, literally the house next door and directly across the street, host a National Night Out party each year, and block...

I never did a follow-up for potty training boy #2 and that's warranted. Surely I don't remember everything from doing this with #1, but...

To celebrate decades of my parents marriage we spent last week in California, getting back over the weekend. My siblings and I, with our...

Ridley Scott has been a prolific movie maker the last 25 years or so, something increasingly impressive as he pumps out big movies well...

There's a dwindling bottle in the cupboard that hasn't been written up yet, so it's time for a review. I'd gone back and forth on whether...

With Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny out (and bombing at the box office it looks like) it's high time I take a closer look at my...

Our eldest son is going to kindergarten this fall and that's the earliest you can play actual baseball. So it's been tee-ball time for...

It wasn't that long ago Buffalo Trace was a readily available, quality Bourbon you could grab for <$30. That's how it was when I started...

It's summer and we're back from our annual pilgrimage to see my wife's sister's family on the Last Frontier. I've written in the past...

In a classic Simpsons episode, Homer Loves Flanders (s5 e16), Homer actually befriends, for one time only, his long-hated,...

Introduced through work (I believe), my wife is a big fan of Clifton Strengths, previously called 'Strength Finder.' After taking an...

I didn't bake before I started this blog and started trying a bunch of new things, with one exception: I made chocolate chip cookies. It...

As I pointed out in my Bourbon Trail post, my biggest takeaway from our Kentucky trip is my newfound fandom of Bardstown Bourbon Company....

A post about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been on my to-do list since starting this blog, it was just always a bit...

I used to not like John Wayne. For some reason, in my head, I thought he was boring, too often the hero, constantly calling people...

Two weekends ago we crossed something off our bucket list, visiting the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky. The impetus for the trip was our 10th...

Our kids have always had friends, of one kind or another, though until recently they've mostly been through friends of my wife and I, or...

I rarely, if at all, write about my sports fandom, because I can't imagine it matters to anyone else, especially when using this longer...

In the third and second centuries BC the powers of the Mediterranean were the Roman Republic and Carthage in the west and the Hellenistic...

Between slowing down on writing in general and slowing down on how rapidly I do whiskey-related posts, I'm surprised how spread out the...