Cheating today: this post originally went a few Augusts ago, but I'm stealing it because I don't have time to write a new one this w...

Well, I did it: I ordered a book (some seem to believe it to be *the* book) on learning to draw: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain , by...

Here's how stupid-smart I was as a kid: at about the age of five, I remember finding a little package of silica gel beads. I figured ...

Slightly over-sunny shot of some of the things coming out of my garden these days: Anaheim peppers, yellow squash, alien spaceship squash ...

There's no way to show you how pretty this screen is, so instead of even trying, here's a lousy flash-ridden camera phone shot... ...

I've been reminiscing on tech gone by lately, since I'm kind of sort of in the research stages for a new laptop. I was one of the fi...

No, I'm not talking about antacid. I'm talking about that most glorious of all summer kid activities: burning holes in stuff with a ...

The other day at work we got to talking about how many confusing yet fun to say derived-from-Native-American-languages names there are for t...

It has come to my attention that my approach to writing often shares similarities with a bratty child's attitude toward bed time. ...

I'm annoyed with myself. At the beginning of the year, I was in pretty decent shape. I was doing a ton of walking, and sticking with a...