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Zucchini bread (w chocolate chips!)

We have more greens and vegetables than we know what to do with this summer, largely due to a CSA my wife signed up for. That's not a...

St. Andrews (the Old Course)

This year the 150th British Open golf tournament, a.k.a. 'the Open Championship,' one of golf's major tournaments, will be played at the...

Wisconsin Dells

Last weekend we spent a few days in Wisconsin Dells for the first time as a family. I'd been there a handful of times as a kid myself,...

Get Joe Beets

We've been a bigger variety of produce lately. My wife signed us up this summer for a farm CSA nearby and we'll, most likely, start...

Roe v Wade was undemocratic

Abortion is the topic of the day as a new Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (i.e. 'Dobbs') overruled...

Very different lifestyles

About a week ago we got back from our (usually) annual trip to Alaska. As I've said before we have family near Homer, AK on the Kenai...

Two little readers

I touched on this briefly in discussing my week without a computer, but it's such a nice part of our boys at their current ages and I...

Resident Evil Village

Two years ago wrote about the Resident Evil 2 remake, which has probably been my favorite game since then. What I did in writing that...

Kilkerran 8 CS

Let's take another journey to Campbeltown. So far the only dram I've reviewed from the lesser known Scotch Whisky Region was Springbank...

Moving irrigation heads

Probably the biggest to-do with our new house was to install a backyard fence ASAP. It didn't (and for the moment still doesn't) have one...

Ich bin ein Berliner

Back in March President Biden condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and spoke not only to the citizens of the United States but those...

The Green Knight

What do you think about when you hear King Arthur? There's the sword in the stone where Arthur's worth and lineage are proven. His grand...

A week without a computer

A big thing right now, when either or both boys are awake, is a constant stream of reading requests. The three-year-old asks verbally,...

Four Roses Small Batch

Somehow it's been almost a year since I've written up a Bourbon. Yikes. A goal that's developed here is to cover the preeminent whiskey...

Cement vs concrete

Our three year old loves books. He also loves trucks, ever since before he could talk. So naturally we have quite a few books featuring...

NATO

In looking at the history of Russia, so far we've examined the country's gargantuan size and the actions of Stalin leading to Nazi...

Prince of Egypt

This time of year, in the lead-up to Easter (aka Lent), I always seem to hear about The Prince of Egypt. I'd never seen the 1998...

Frederick, MD

In my head I wanted to have this done the day we moved. Missed that deadline by, uh, a lot. I don't want to dwell too much in the past...

MLB's blackout rules

I'm a baseball nut, something you probably already know. Figuring out how we're going to watch Major League Baseball, specifically the...

The best decision we ever made

I feel like I've hinted at this before but don't think I've said it outright. Something's been pressing on me lately, a result of moving...

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