The group guitar class I took through the local school district was a blast. When, at the end of the course, the instructor announced his upcoming songwriting class, I signed up on the spot.

Earlier this week I...

This is rarely a forum for my political opinions. But today John McCain came to town to pander some...

We're still working with Megan on her grades. She's got her phone back and friends aren't totally off-limits but homework is the top daily priority. Every day we remind her to follow-up with teachers about missed work,...

The battery meter on my MacBook tells me I have fourteen minutes before going to sleep. I'm way to lazy to get up and find the power cord so I'm playing it safe and writing this post in thirteen. Well, now it says thirteen...

I got so confused by the early Easter this year and got so wrapped up in the commercialism of the holiday that I nearly forgot to remember the true meaning of the day. Yes, Easter is a converted Pagan sun ritual. No,...

That's right. 1994.

When we built our house a few years ago, there was one space that was supposed to be left unfinished. A spare bathroom in the basement. But instead of leaving it totally unfinished a few, but not all, of the contractors...

So. My grandfather died. Umm. Like. Maybe a couple weeks ago. Though I'm not exactly sure when. Or how. Or where. See, it turns out my dad kind of forgot to tell me. I heard it last night from Donna who heard it yesterday...

One night each week, Megan and I take a group beginning guitar lesson at a nearby middle school. The class is a veritable orgy of bad tuning and muted bar chords. But bad as the students are, the instructors hair is worse....

With each polynomial the father explains, his frustration with explaining the relationship of monomials and their powers to his daughter increases exponentially in relationship to the lateness of the hour. Simplify this...

My brother's wife has been in town with their kids for a couple of weeks. She flew in to help her brother finalize the preparations for his wedding to a Filipino mail-order bride. Or something like that. Maybe he met her...