Nowhere Near the Edge

There are so many risk factors to take into account when deciding to have a baby; the need to take medication for a chronic condition adds a...

It has been a major peeve of mine over the years that the products we buy, particularly at the grocery store, have become smaller without an...

This is one of those years when we lost our sanity and invited everybody Michael knows, or has met, or has seen from across a street somewhe...

I believe that most people can identify at least one teacher in their educational experience who had a particularly notable impact on their ...

Proving yet again my prescience for choosing the university on America's Riviera as my institution of higher learning, UC Santa Barbara ...

Have you ever struggled to understand performance art? Does it usually involve too much self-mutilation and/or debasement for your taste? ...

September 11 is a hard date. On Sunday, our pastor aptly said that that no matter how we are getting along now, a shadow falls on that day....

Kelly, in her year round schedule sort of way, is well into her second month of fourth grade. Michael, having a traditional schedule with a...

AYSO's season started this morning. Our region supports more than 3,000 kids, so the minivans were out in force today. There wasn'...

When you are approaching an intersection in which another car is waiting to turn left across traffic and you intend to push through a yellow...

At least for a little while. A Category V typhoon is scheduled to sweep over the remote Pacific island tomorrow, and is expected to submerg...

Michael starts in AYSO's youngest division this year. The teams have five boys each, and play short 3-on-3 games that are more open pla...

I make no apologies for the fact that the sentences to follow contain roughly 89% more subjectivity than federal regulations allow for a cer...

The tragic crash of a commuter jet at a small regional airport in Kentucky yields some curious questions about how such a horrible event co...

A plumber sat next to a lawyer on a long flight from L.A. to New York. The lawyer leans over to him and asks if he would like to play a fun ...

This ought to give all Americans, and particularly those who voluntarily strap themselves onto gigantic rockets, a warm sense of comfort. N...

Tonight's the night . The annual Perseid meteor shower will take place over the next couple of days. Unfortunately, the glare of the n...

After years of thinking about it, I finally took the plunge today: Golfing legend Bobby Jones said of the young, dominating Jack Nicklaus, ...

Notwithstanding all that fascinating stuff I wrote about hormone ratios, alcohol and legal painkillers, it appears that Floyd Landis may ac...

If you ever think that driving a few miles to go to the big shopping mall is just too far , get over yourself and ponder this: