Ollie's off to school today.  He and I weren't ready to say good bye to the stay-home-and-play (-and-I-know-everything-you-are-doing...

We've had a lot of good water time this summer.  Pools, oceans, even streams at parks.  Ansel walked right into a stream at a lo...

This summer has involved lots of weed pulling. In the garden, in the gravel path, in the driveway cracks; weeds are pulled on a regular basi...

I've made a goal to pick up less, which seems like a travesty, but in this case, a needed travesty.  I remember being a teen and going t...

We recently celebrated our ten year anniversary by visiting a recommended 9th & 9th restaurant, taking a nice walk in that neighborhood...

I recently picked up Nora Ephron's humorous book, I Feel Bad About My Neck .  It seems that Nora didn't take herself too seriously...

August already?!  Again, I find myself at the beginning of August amazed at how the summer has sped along.  It has gone at a good solid pace...

Don't you just love when life presents you with those purely wonderful tidbits of time?

I recently read an article about the game show Jeopardy .  It is right there behind Wheel of Fortune as one of the longest running game sho...

Ansel is an adventurer, he can run fast, and he loves to brush his 12 (soon to be 13) teeth.  His favorite books are On Market Street by An...