A news item . And this is the poster in question, which should be plastered everywhere: Back in March, the West Ada School District near Boi...

Well, I guess a little over a month. Five weeks, to be exact, and I have to be back working in the office. Here's what that looks like: ...

Lexi and Keaton are moving back locally and are hoping to get into a house. Of course the housing market is weird, locally and nationally. R...

  This lovely little rhyme is from a book called " Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book ," published in London in 1744. I had a feel...

Listening to the pilot episode of "The Rockford Files" this morning as I work. He goes into a disco and suddenly it's the musi...

So this is interesting. Per this article at Futurism.com, teachers, researchers, and other professionals have started to notice certain wri...

I add the (!) in the title because, as my oldest son and I watched the movie unspool this evening, I realize that while I have seen parts of...

I enjoyed reading Garry Wills' "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America." The book analyzes the rhetoric and cont...

  On to better things. 1. The petunias have really taken off. Michelle's not necessarily smitten with petunias, but they certainly do li...

The fence project I mentioned in my last post is finished, but not as I'd like. Some neighborly complications have arisen. More on that ...