Nowhere Near the Edge

For some reason, when it is 95 degrees in November, you get sunsets like this on our street: Moonrise over the hill ... if only I'd had ...

Americans are notorious for their shaky-to-nonexistent grasp of basic geography (although I have some doubts as to whether a stockbroker fro...

Halloween gave us the seldom-seen pairing of Laura Ingalls and Anakin Skywalker:

This weekend I had another opportunity to smoke the tires and boil the brake fluid of Mazda's latest offerings. As I did last year, I a...

October 20th, you say? Well, here we are at 3:15 pm: I just figured that would brighten your day. Okay, everybody back in the pool!

You may have heard that golfer Arnold Palmer decided to retire from competitive golf last week. The 77 year old legend hasn't been tru...

Well, well. My old English 2B classmate, Professor Monk, has hit the bright lights of the media world. The Professor has an article at New...

In a weird confluence of the political and sports worlds, the airplane that crashed into a Manhattan highrise yesterday, rekindling 9/11 ji...

Do you have a few minutes? Good. How about a couple of hours? If you do, try this flash-based set of puzzles . They are very light on di...

Teleportation is reality ! Well, it is if you happen to be a "macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms"...

Researchers have recently determined that children are far more likely to be roused from sleep in an emergency by the sound of their mother...

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'...