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Summer is over and it's the school year again. Before now that didn't mean a lot, even when #1 was in preschool four days a week that's...

Much like Moana and Frozen, see those two previous posts, my kids (two this time) have become obsessed with Disney songs and have been...

My wife and I have enjoyed doing whiskey tasting kits in the past (see A Johnnie Walker vertical ), it's like getting a flight at home....

Last year we signed up for a bi-weekly CSA ('community supported agriculture') box through the summer and we did it again here in 2023....

10 years ago a friend suggested making a list, selecting a favorite movie from every calendar year. It's a fun idea, and one that...

When talking about ancient Greece it's easy to make generalizations. Most of our hard evidence from that era comes from Athens, home to...

A little while back I saw an article about NBC potentially getting back into NBA coverage after a 20 year hiatus. To be honest I'm not...

Our visit to San Diego included a few run-ins with Stone Brewing. A huge and prominent craft brewing operation based in southern...

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...