Another typical day in New York, as a man attacks a peacock in a Burger King parking lot in the belief it is actually a vampire. Hey, makes perfect sense to me.
Over the weekend we journeyed to Ohio for Laura’s mom’s wedding, and became some of the first passengers of the recently launched Skybus airline. We got our seats for a whopping $10 each, which had me imagining a Korean War-vintage…
Although this clip has a bit of age on it now (it was taken over a year ago), it’s one of my favorites as it captures perfectly the relationship of Jason and Scott, who each will try any stupid thing…
I turned up a neat quote today on what it’s like to have sons: “A boy is a magical creature. You can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart. You can get…
Well, the back yard is finally shaping up for us. Last fall we had some guys come in and clear out the woods, taking down about 100 trees and tons of brush, roots and stumps, then bringing in some fill…
Yesterday a gunman took 32 lives at Virginia Tech in what they’re calling the worst such shooting spree in history. For now, anyway. Every day I work on a university campus with a lot of young people very much like…
What with all the warm weather and sunshine lately, we decided to buy some plantings for the yard a couple weekends ago. Laura and the boys had fun adding flowers to the various beds and things were looking better than…
Last weekend we took the boys to the circus for the first time. In retrospect, we probably should’ve waited another year. We started off well enough, with Jason laughing hysterically at every inane thing the clowns did, and the elephants…
So let me see if I’ve got this straight. One day she’s a brilliant young Navy captain and astronaut with a space mission behind her and more to come, the next she’s weilding a BB-Gun and pepper spray in a fight…
Where does the time go? Scotty turned two last Saturday, and had a great time opening presents and being sung to. He practiced blowing out candles for about a week ahead of time, so when the big moment came he…
