Nowhere Near the Edge

While watching lacrosse on TV this weekend, one of the announcers noted that a player was following in the footsteps of his father who had p...

Memorial Day weekend is usually a good one, thanks to the extra day off. It also happens to be home to a number of big events in lesser-fol...

The people of California will soon begin feeling the pinch of the state's widely publicized budgetary mess. Immediately after a series ...

I acknowledge that I may be the only person not employed by NASA who watches the live NASA TV coverage of shuttle flights, but the mission c...

Our house was landscaped with a nice variety of flowers and trees. One of the odd pleasures of the house is that, because we bought the hou...

Alton Brown is one of my favorite television personalities (admittedly, that is not a long list). He is the creator, producer and star of ...

I can now say, sadly, that someone I have known personally has been murdered. I received word today through a network of old friends that a ...

It's official. The old hard drive is dead, taking three years of documents, financial data and photographs with it. The only document ...

It's through the looking glass time. Barry Bonds, the former slugger who is now baseball's most prominent pariah thanks to steroids,...

After only seven months of residency, we reached a milestone today: We've had one car in the driveway since we moved in, with boxes and ...

If Art Linkletter were still around, he could develop a new franchise around the bizarre malaprops generated by speech recognition software....

... and it wasn't even my choice. It seems that the good money that was thrown after the bad money really hit it off and decided to run...

This post is unremarkable in appearance, but a big deal on our end of the keyboard. After a couple of weeks down, the iMac is functional ag...

I feel so cheated. It turns out that Four Corners, the point at which Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah come together (the only such m...

We have a lot of generalized plans about places we want to visit as a family. Hawaii is high on the list, an American heritage trip through...

I finally figured out where the boundary line of middle age is. It is the day you host your daughter's 12-year-old birthday party and yo...

A Ferrari crashed in the local hills last Saturday. The driver apparently took a turn too fast and flipped the car. Fortunately, she was ...

We've been away for spring break, our first extended getaway as a family in about two years. We kids knew we were headed to San Diego; ...

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...