Today I learned that it depends on the translation of Johann David Wyss' "Swiss Family Robinson" whether the phrase "Frit...

  Posted on a friend's Facebook feed, an homage to the humorous talents of one Michael Palin. And Palin's Eric Olthwaite is a charac...

Going to brag on my youngest son for a moment. Before Christmas, I saw this LEGO set at Walmart and mentioned to the kids it would make a gr...

  This is where I started today. We got a justifiable nastygram from the postman, asking us to clear some snow away from the mailbox so he o...

Because of blowing snow and closed roads, work buses didn't run this morning. But I work from home, so that doesn't matter. The anno...

So my computer is sick. It's been sick for quite a while, if I'm honest. A few years back, it got a few Windows updates stuck in its...

I don't pretend to know how hard it is to be a CEO, and to have to announce layoffs. But as a former journalist and tech writer, I recog...

I got an unexpected text today, and after a little prompting, decided how to reply: They gave up after this. Pretty sure someone in North Ca...

This is how I've felt, the last few weeks. And yes, maybe with two posts in a row about ChatGPT, I'm adding in a small way to the TH...

NOTE: This is an announcement I just shared with my online English students, just so you know the audience. I'm sure most of you have he...