Nowhere Near the Edge

At least, the best one I've been to that wasn't my own.  For Michael's 11th birthday, we agreed to his request that we take some...

We are a month into what we anticipated would be a school year full of work.  We have not been disappointed.  Fifth grade is well-known to b...

As a society, we trust order, but are not above manipulating our world to match our expectations of what the world ought to be.   We pr...

For the first time in three years, our summer did not move to the beat of the swim team season.  Michael decided he did not want to be on th...

In the middle of the ongoing Olympiad, the most impressive performance under pressure this week was not an archer fighting crosswinds or an ...

Giants fans took a lot of flack from the national media and fans of other teams when they adopted Chicago-style tactics (vote early and ofte...

I changed the oil in my car last weekend.  That hardly seems worthy of note, but what was routine a generation ago is now cause for either c...

Tonight, San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain starts his first game since he pitched a perfect game last Wednesday night.  Only 22 times i...

In a fine display of civic good humor (or humour, in this instance), the Oregon town of Boring will become a sister city with the Eng...

Capping a 10-month period in which he received a Most Improved Swimmer trophy from his swim team and made the all-star team for his soccer l...

A friend from high school, who was a neighbor and a formidable student, went on to become a prosecutor for Santa Clara county.  She somehow ...

Perhaps because NBC has not gotten around to telling me what human interest stories I should pay atention to yet, it somehow escaped my atte...

One of the things that brings me joy is a sunny Northern California spring morning, when the fragrant cool of the dawn gives way to the prom...

It's puzzle time here on the ol' blog.  As in the classic kids' magazine Highlights, how many differences can you spot between t...

After delays with scheduling quirks and rainouts, our Pirates have finally played half of our regular season games, plus a five game non-lea...

We took advantage of a rare open schedule to slip up to Lake Tahoe this weekend. We did some sledding near the house, and later lunched amou...

An Oregon family has built a 1/3 scale Fenway Park on their back acreage, perfect for wiffle ball games. I love this. If I had the room, I...

The designer of my favorite commuter car has died . Working for the company founded by his grandfather, who designed what became the Volkswa...

Boeing is testing its new space vehicle -- excellent! It's time to return to manned space exploration, to boldly go where we haven...

Spring break has arrived. As with most traditional vacation breaks, it means far less to me that I wish it did. Annoyingly, employers outs...