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Amazon's the Rings of Power debuts this week (tonight!) after years of production and much wonderment about what it's going to include....

The aspect of parenting I seem to be struggling with most these days is setting a good example. This isn't across the board as I, for the...

James Caan died about a month ago. Soon after I saw a few film people I respect on Twitter talking about Thief (1981). I'd never heard of...

Monday night was the series finale of Better Call Saul, something I covered two years ago (link here). I want to talk about how it all...

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's trip to Asia, including a stop in Taiwan, has been a big topic of conversation. China tells us it...

Another big gap in American whiskey is anything and everything from the Brown-Forman Corporation . An American spirits company founded in...

The jokes are funny because they're true. A first child gets all the attention to his/her self. First-time parents tend to be much better...

The term 'non-stop thrill ride' is overused in describing movies, whether it appears in trailers or wherever else. It's untrue in...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...