Last summer I decided that during the dark season I would get myself certified to belay the kids at the local climbing gym and this would give us an activity to do when things got cold.  I was ...

Spring has arrived and we are able to get to the playground after work.  It is depressing to be without playgrounds for 5 months straight but the hiatus enables me to see discrete changes that ...

Ellie has been very difficult lately. I guess this would be the whole 2/3 year old thing but she was always the easier of the two kids, going along with whatever Phoebe wanted to do. Overnight it ...

I am not sure when or how it happened but I realized about two hours into our sail that I had yet to touch the wheel.  I had been involved at some level, but mostly doing grunt work like trimming ...

There is a critical point in the life of a car where it makes more economic sense to get rid of it. Mike Clark once told me that this happened around 80K miles.  Today’s cars are more ...