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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

I've consumed almost no Anime, meaning specifically Japanese animation. Anime has long included shows targeted at adults instead of just...

We're still doing remote games. At this point it's more because of moving away from friends than the pandemic, though the idea probably...

We suddenly have plenty of family in Phoenix. My sister has lived there a while and her family has been growing. Her in-laws are all...

Let's keep going on Russia shall we? Last time we covered, very swiftly, how Russia got so big between about 1300 and 1900. Muscovy...

As stated previously I'm not entirely sold on living in Minnesota again. I'm missing the warmer weather of Maryland and starting to dread...

The only Scotch whisky region I've neglected so far is the Lowlands . There are reasons for this. First there aren't very many...

Generally when doing food recipes I want to own the idea start to finish. I decided to make this thing, found a recipe and tried it....

Less than a week ago the Russian Federation ('Russia') launched a widespread invasion of its neighbor Ukraine. It's the largest land war...

There are a lot of gangster movies and TV shows out there. Most are set here in the USA, where both real-life mobsters (like Al Capone)...

Lord of the Rings, a favorite topic of mine, is making news again. For that we can thank Amazon and its new series, which finally has a...

The perfect steak, in my opinion, has a tiny crispy brown burnt layer on the outside and a juicy medium rare, mostly red, center....

Scotch whisky is made all over Scotland and that includes its many islands. Islay gets all the glory because it's its own region and the...