Nowhere Near the Edge

Kelly played another game at St. Mary's today. In one of her team's best games of the season, she set up a teammate for the first go...

I have enjoyed working with the new camera, although most of the pictures I have taken have been at soccer games. Every once in a while, th...

I'm not the first to observe that aging is, in many respects, no fun. While The Professor was preparing to compete in his first triathl...

Both kids are well into their soccer seasons now. Michael's Team Spain is a spirited bunch, although they have yet to win a game. They...

Relying again on an iPhone app for guidance, I took on the task of preparing sweet and sour pork a couple of weekends ago. I originally got...

A trade war, anyway. The Chinese government is in a huff about the U.S. government's institution of 25% import duties on Chinese-made a...

Maybe it's a little geeky, but I absolutely love this footage of the space shuttle Discovery's landing last week. I like any foota...

I first bought a 35 mm SLR camera around the dawn of the digital photography age. At the time, digital cameras were large, clunky devices t...

The universe can be a quirky place sometimes. It is not entirely surprising that yesterday, on 09/09/09, someone had a baby at 9:09. What ...

If it seems like the Beatles are in the news lately all out of proportion to the attention that would normally be paid to a band that broke ...

The webcam at Mt. Wilson , embedded with the dense farm of communications equipment that overlooks Los Angeles, gives the world a front row ...

The swim team season wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. It was everything that people told us it would be. It was a fun social opportunity ...

For the first time in three years, when Michael was still in pre-school, the school year began exactly like the previous year. Last year, e...

Do you have a rodent problem? Ditch the traps and poisons. Get a carnivorous plant . The Venus Flytrap is a mere popgun compared to the b...

Spend some time outside tonight watching meteors streak across the firmament. The annual Perseid meteor shower will be at its peak overnig...

This is a sad day for Gen-Xers. The man who simultaneously reflected and shaped our teen years, John Hughes, has died . He is the man behi...

The swim season is nearly over, but the intensity has ratcheted up in advance of the league finals. The kids had two-a-day practices last w...

Our daughter has been known, on occasion, to exhibit extreme sensitivity to... let's call it "sensation." Ever since she has ...

To non-fans, car racing makes little sense. It is loud, expensive, wasteful of resources and, worst of all, boring. Even if all of those t...

It's now nearly midnight on a Sunday night, and I just got home from work after putting in about 15 hours at the office over the weekend...