Nowhere Near the Edge

Phil Hill died today of complications from Parkinson's disease. Although he does not have the name recognition of Mario Andretti, Tony...

I just signed my name forty seven times on numerous disclosure documents as our house purchase enters the end game. At least I know I will ...

Not only is it the first day of school, but it is the first day of new school for each of the kids. As a new middle-schooler and new to th...

This game seems simple enough. Until you see how some people tackle the problems. Of course, it is possible to stay simple , or even gre...

I noted awhile back that hybrid vehicles, for all of their benefits, present a peculiar danger to the public. They are silent when running...

I think everyone has blind spots when it comes to spelling certain words. I don't mean spelling bee level words that nobody has ever he...

I lived in the Los Angeles area for more than 15 years and had only intermittent brushes with celebrities. (My favorite tale is that I beca...

It is hard to figure out how some verbal tics become commonplace. Nevertheless, every once in a while a useless new word or phrase enters t...

After months of searching, waiting and hoping, we will have progressed from seeing a house for the first time to being under-contract buyers...

So a guy blew up his apartment while trying to exterminate bugs. A couple of thoughts: If it took that much poison to deal with the critte...

Amid news that Starbucks is closing 600 stores and Americans are using less gasoline comes word of another reduction that will affect your e...

The name of my fantasy baseball teams is the Eefus Aficionados. The eefus (or eephus) pitch is a seldom-seen high lob that has appeared in ...

Who knew that my comment about companies hearing about what they do wrong in a nanosecond would come home to roost so soon? If I had been ...

Sometimes it pays to be nice. I recently sent a letter to the President of Southwest Airlines expressing my gratitude that the airline, by ...

There has been a mild amount of angst over the recent inception of a new law in California that requires drivers to use a hands-free device ...

We have become quite daring in our spacefaring adventures. Today, two residents of the International Space Station removed a potentially d...

We spent all last week preparing for our move. We have now relocated ourselves to Northern California, and the truck with half of our lives...

Escrow closed yesterday, right on time, with no complications. We are now quite literally living here on borrowed time. Disconcerting.

Yesterday was, finally, the last day of school. Because the school will be dropping sixth grade next year, the fifth graders also got a pro...

I seem to get swept up in strange things when I leave the office for business. If it is not a nationwide airline computer meltdown, it is a...