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

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...

In case you couldn't tell, I've really been into ancient Greece lately. After hearing about it a couple times in other books, I decided...

Last week we started potty training our #2 child. It was probably the longest week of my life. This is one of those parts of parenting...

About two weeks ago I was working on a new post. Wix (the site hosting this), when going to upload a picture said I was over my limit for...

Time for another whiskey, and it's a fun one. I'd already been wondering how Whistlepig, a little distillery in Vermont, rose to such...

Fairly recently I watched Battleship Potemkin (1925), a silent-era Soviet propaganda film that (amusingly in retrospect) was banned in...

I'm not usually that into cocktails. It should probably be obvious by now my preference with liquor is whiskey, as it comes. But, with...

There are upsides of gas-powered equipment, like lawn mowers or snowblowers, and those are primarily related to their power. They'll...

Less than two years ago I wrote about my first couple weeks home alone, during the week when my wife was back at work, with two kids. I...

I've stated before there's nothing, in pop culture or elsewhere, that's had a bigger impact on my sense of humor than the Simpsons. I...

Last week it took a few extra days and 15 ballots to elect a Speaker of the House for the new Congress, something unusual but not...

I think most Americans know the broader definition of western civilization goes back through medieval Europe to Rome and, ultimately, to...