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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...

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...