I suppose it’s good for me

First, how about a Twainism: We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it — not like the cat that sits on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit […]

Timeless

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Yesterday I went for a long run. And? I forgot my watch. When you get old, I guess these things happen, but dig this – I remembered the chest strap for my heart rate monitor, but it is dang useless without the watch […]

Extreme Makeover, North Pole Edition

Christmas break is the perfect time to tear up perfectly good (yet cluttered) living spaces and get ready to remodel. Or, so I hear. And ‘remodel’ is our own cheapass way of doing it, we can’t afford a real rip-down-the-walls type of remodel, so today we are: Replacing the kitchen faucet, which after a dozen […]