I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Our local school is now selling…mulch. I'm just letting you know, in case you needed some…. Hmm.

  Occasionally, I hear friends calling for armed rebellion because they dislike some government policy.   This is a very bad idea.   Saturday, we went and walked the Antietam Battlefield, which had places with names like the Bloody Cornfield and the Bloody Line Road.   23,000 Americans died there in one day—the worst day…

I have been meaning to blog about this since my first few days in China. Monkey de Luffy was HUGE in China. You could find toys, shirts, bags, shoes, all sorts of stuff nearly everywhere we went.  One place even had little models of the Going Merry and the Sunny. Basically, One Piece merchandise was…

Doom just looks cooler on the page than Dread does. ;-(   Somethings, one just loses….

I got this today. Dating the Monsters is my essay on why vampires and werewolves are the Go To heroes for modern romances. (It is also about the Anita Blake series.) The full name of the essay is: Dating the Monsters: Why It Takes A Vampire or A Werewolf To Win The Heart of the…

Juss took all his Christmas money and allowance and bought two radio operated Beyblades, one for him and one for his brother. He LOVED his.   He had it for less than a day, took it outside before I got up on Saturday morning, it got muddy and he…washed it. Now it doesn't work.  …

Yesterday evening, I sent the older boys upstairs to get ready for Scouts. I had put the Cherubim's hat and scarf in his drawer…not where they usually were. He came down a little later, dressed in his uniform shirt and pants, all by himself, and said in  his backwards breathy voice (he breathes in instead…

Here's a picture of the famous Chinese $4.75 boots: