Nowhere Near the Edge

The biggest full moon of the year was last night, when the full moon phase coincided with the perigee of the moon's elliptical orbit aro...

Last weekend being a holiday weekend and the first break in the bad weather we had seen in more than a week, our basketball squad was down t...

History is a pretty big place, so it should not be surprising that any given day on the calendar will mark a variety of momentous occasions....

Welcome to the latest installment of my inexplicably long - running account of the saga of the demise of a middling automaker. Just as I t...

Nearly all of California (and Oregon, too) is coping with a series of major El Niño-type rainstorms this week. The first came through the B...

Following the holidays, basketball resumed for our men of "Ohio State." Once again, thanks to one superior athlete and a couple o...

According to an organization that apparently is tasked with the fascinating duty of recording on-time airport arrivals, the Oakland airport ...

On the Saturday that marks the end of the holiday season, before real life returns at full volume, this Saturday morning presents a conundru...

This afternoon of Christmas Eve, as ever more presents appeared under the boughs, Michael took to counting his gifts. Again. As he began t...

Thankfully, nobody was killed when an American Airlines jet skidded off the runway while landing in Jamaica in a rainstorm. The airline ha...

The California Emergency Management Agency has released maps detailing the effect on the California coastline of tsunamis generated by most...

After missing a week due to illness, Michael was back with his "Ohio State" teammates on the basketball court. They are an energe...

Recent events, which included me accompanying Kelly to the hospital for 45 hours, opened my eyes to certain truths about health care. Quest...

The grippe has come to our household, knocking Michael out of school nearly all week, and taking Cheryl down today. Because he is still rec...

A few weeks ago (nanoseconds in the slow-moving calendar that governs home improvement projects), I completed the rough carpentry needed to ...

The latest school project that Kelly despised came from her video production class. So far this year, that class has kept her busy producin...

Halloween candy has a shelf life. That is equal to the time from October 31 to the moment the first batch of Christmas fudge is done. As of...

GM bungles another deal. After failing to sell off its Saturn line to Penske, GM's proposed deal to sell Saab to Swedish carmaker Koeni...

Kelly's first appearance in an all-star game was a good one. She started the game and had some good touches, including a clever change ...

Last Saturday's games were the last regular season games. There is one more game for 16 kids in each of the three oldest divisions: th...