I've been trying to get a Throwback Thursday post up most weeks, but this week, I'm too preoccupied about the future to successfully...

Went to Goodwill today and was pawing through the baskets of office supplies like I always do, when *this* turned up: That's three ...

1. I'm about a third of the way into Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . How I missed this one until now, I have n...

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 ...