Nowhere Near the Edge

On our way to our time-share condo outside San Diego for spring break this week, we surprised the kids with a stop at Disneyland. They refu...

Although I have somehow resisted the urge to gush, the iPhone I have had for the last seven months has exceeded my expectations in just abou...

Many of the local trees have already flowered, and the daffodils appeared everywhere last month. With a full week of sunshine, our yard has...

A couple of hours after the first pitch in Michael's baseball season , Kelly embarked on a new sporting venture: volleyball. In this s...

Michael started his second season of baseball this past Saturday. They have dispensed with the tee, going with coaches-pitch from the begin...

There is a long way to go, but this recent development gives me a great deal of satisfaction:

An employee of a prominent local foundation that funds health care for children pled guilty to embezzlement this week, and will likely be s...

Thanks to work stress, I often wake up in the middle of the night unable to get back to sleep. The one routine I have developed that works ...

Nearby Cal (UC Berkeley) seems to have an unnatural hold on the imaginations of young boys of this area. Michael's youth baseball team ...

This discovery is not amazing in and of its own merit. It is amazing because I had not discovered it before. When I first bought my car fiv...

When are we going to figure this out? Even radio stations have been finessing the issue for years, but here we are in 2009 and they still h...

Just because Tokyo at night is more brightly colored than a 64 crayon box of Crayolas doesn't mean that the intensity of its after-dark ...

Having not joined the working world until 1996, I did not join the world of personal financial investments until 1997 or so. As the stock m...

Michael Jordan is now a finalist for the basketball Hall of Fame. The election announcement will be on April 6th. I don't think His A...

I can't buy windshield wipers. Shame and embarrassment stalks me at every turn. If I go to the auto parts store in September to buy ne...

It was announced today that U.S. based airlines have gone two years without a fatality , the first such stretch of that duration since the d...

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Ford Motor Company is apparently doing everything it can to lean out its operations and avoid taking government bail-out money. Despite po...

Programming note: Number 1-ranked Duke taking on number 4-ranked Wake Forest made for good theater last night. Tonight, the lightly regarde...