
Last summer my stepmother got us hooked on Ancestry.com, a site where you build your family tree using old census, immigration, marriage, birth & death records. I didn’t realize how enjoyable it would be, but it’s like a big relaxing logic puzzle where the reward is finding your roots. The jackpot, of …
Published on January 7, 2011

Artist Point Berry Cobbler
Published on June 10, 2010

Last time my dad came over, we dropped Mentos into Diet Coke and tried to make it spurt up like a fountain. It was my dad’s idea. He’d seen it on TV and didn’t believe that it really worked. He wanted to try it himself so he brought over a 16 oz bottle of Diet [...]
Published on February 22, 2008