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The ongoing war in Gaza is not the only major event currently on-going in the Middle East. As a direct result of the war the Houthis, a...

If, like me, you frequently browse the whiskey selection in liquor stores, you've probably noticed a brand called Barrell. They have a...

Not too long ago I was toying with writing a 'cooking as therapy' post. Over the last few years I've been taking over more and more of...

Sometimes with movies (or whatever else) it's easy to wonder if your recollection of something was perhaps an extension of a particular...

I haven't always been good about going to the doctor for routine, preventative visits, but I have made it in twice in the last two years....

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...