Monthly Archives: August 2015

My niece got married this weekend, and I was there for most every significant part of that event. It’s been a while since I was involved with a wedding beyond putting in a guest appearance at a reception. For the … Continue reading →

It’s probably no surprise to anyone that I have no respect for Miley Cyrus. And I suspect she doesn’t place much importance on my opinions, either. But she isn’t helping her case any when she appears on the Tonight Show wearing … Continue reading →

My son has a goal of going to the Pokemon World Championships. As parents we’re excited to see him motivated about something, and so we’re doing what we can to support him in this. For me that means, among other things, serving … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading The Fellowship of the Ring again lately, and this time its struck me just how often characters sit and think things through. While this doesn’t happen “on camera” most of the time, it’s nonetheless there. The wiser … Continue reading →

Visitors to a public chat recently had a chance to participate in a live-action video game. An experiment by British production company Realm Pictures, it mimicked a first-person shooter, but with the players giving a live actor verbal instructions. The … Continue reading →

Mars rover Curiosity has been sending back some incredible pictures. Here’s a high-definition look at he Martian landscape I find inexplicably compelling. This is cool stuff! Here’s another view.

As I mentioned recently, Sofie, our sweetheart rottweiler-hound mix, had to be put down several weeks ago. Well, we knew we couldn’t do without a dog in our home for long, and so many are in need of one. From … Continue reading →

What if the poem you’ve been told all your life is a tribute to individualism, to charting your own course, wasn’t about that at all? There are few people in America who haven’t heard the Robert Frost poem “The Road … Continue reading →

Before Jean Shepherd became the man behind “A Christmas Story”, he was the man behind one of the biggest literary hoaxes in history. He and his late night talk radio show followers successfully got a book title “I, Libertine” on the … Continue reading →

I hear many people lamenting the lack of willingness to seek compromise, especially in the political realm. I’m one of them. But like most things, I suspect these people, myself included, haven’t completely thought things through. Is a compromise even desirable, let … Continue reading →