A Super Brothers Snorkeling Adventure

Jun 18, 2021
What better summer learning experience is there than teaching my boys how to snorkel? Long, long ago when I was much younger and marginally less wise, I spent some time SCUBA diving and snorkeling and...

40 is the New -9

Jan 25, 2019
It got really cold this week! I don’t know if you noticed, but highways in the north were closed due to ice, snow plows were out in full force, and officials were telling people to stay off the ...

Fury of a Million Acorns

Jan 11, 2019
I’ve got a real problem with my nuts. Wait – that didn’t come out right, did it? Acorns, nuts, demon seeds – call them what you will, but I’ve got entirely too many of th...

A Cautionary Tale About Frogs…

May 27, 2016
I’m not ashamed to admit it – I was once naive in the ways of the common green frog, led to believe that they’re all cute and laid-back and slimy in a fun-loving, hoppy kind of way...

Gardening for Lazy People

Apr 29, 2016
I enjoy the outdoors alright … I suppose. I mean, I look at it through the window every day, not to mention passing it whenever I walk from my front door out to my car in the driveway … le...

A Maze of Any Other Flavor…

Oct 30, 2015
There are many foods that I’ve occasionally dreamt of finding myself lost in a maze of … pizza, General Tso’s chicken, those giant chocolate chip cookies from Panera that just about�...

I Now Own a Chainsaw

Jul 31, 2015
You’d probably think that I’d be happy … perhaps even excited about this, but I assure you I’m really not. Sure, chainsaws are among the manliest of tools, whether you’...

I Want to Run a Marathon

Nov 16, 2012
Well not right now, mind you! It would take an awfully rude person to start a conversation and then immediately go, “You know what – hold that thought. I’m just going to go run 26.2 miles – I�...

One Day a Grilling Guru, I Shall Be…

Aug 5, 2011
Believe me, I certainly understand that my lack of open pit prowess isn’t exactly the most manly thing to be declaring here in the dead of summer when the Coronas are flowing freely and every guy wh...