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It's dry January and I don't plan on a bottle review this month. So it's a good time to resume teaching, and learning, about what goes...

I've meant to write more about Israel and the Middle East at large since the Oct 7th attacks, but life is busy, you know? Still the...

With our first two children, the boys, we had few problems with sleeping through the night. #1 from birth was an incredible sleeper and...

As a kid Spider-Man my favorite superhero. I liked whatever cartoons he appeared in and, as a teen, loved the Sam Raimi live action...

A lot of the whiskey I've written up comes from the big-name distilleries and producers, and I've wanted to branch out a little more,...

At some point or another you've likely heard that Christmas, the observance of Jesus' birth, is celebrated on different dates by...

Last weekend a couple friends and I were in Las Vegas. As stated previously (see Vegas during Covid), we go about once a year, but this...

With a certain tweet (yes, it's a tweet) making the rounds last week I decided it was time to earn my Minnesotan cred for real. If you...

We haven't watched a ton of TV the last year or so, and what was likely our favorite show may be a bit of a surprise. Jeremy Clarkson is...

For my birthday my wife gave me The Fall of Gondolin, a new-ish (2018) book credited to J.R.R. Tolkien but put together by his son...

I often get annoyed with our eldest son, too often. There are other circumstances, to be sure, but one type of interaction has really...

As stated elsewhere (like in Whiskey 101) the Balvenie 12y DoubleWood was the first whiskey I really liked, the one that kicked off this...

On moving into our Minnesota house in 2021 one project was on our radar from the start, the deck needed refinishing. We had raw wood for...

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is now classic horror, but seems a whole lot less known than the various slashers with too many sequels...

A month or so ago, soon after start of school year started I think, I introduced our kids to Raffi, using YouTube videos. He's now a huge...

Maryland has the 'Eastern Shore' (of the Chesapeake). Minnesota has the 'North Shore' (of Lake Superior). Both are referred to by locals...

On Saturday October 7, 2023 Israel was attacked. It was Hamas, the terrorist group that's controlled Gaza since 2007, that invaded the...

We're Costco people now, and are just over a year into having a membership. I usually go once a week to buy at least a handful of things...

Recently I (re)watched s1 of HBO's Rome and mostly decided against writing about it. Then, for a few days at least, the online discourse...

As mentioned previously, with our bi-weekly CSA, and to a lesser extent our little backyard garden beds, we constantly have a plethora of...