I told the kids last night that if it wasn't raining we could go outside and catch lightning bugs today after it got dark. To be honest I was really hoping they would forget. It rained on and off all day

It never ceases to amaze me how many different things my kids are interested in. I'm sure I was the same way but when you are a kid you don't really think, you just act. Yesterday we were watching Ghost

I tried to play the Alice Cooper staple for the kids as they walked up the driveway on the last day of school but was mostly ignored. The 8-year-old boy quickly ran in to get his new squirt guns and his

I have lived in places with consistent 100°F summer days. I've endured winters with well over 100 inches of snow. I've called lake cabins, run down motel rooms and attic apartments home. From mid-sized

Ah, the introduction. The place where you talk yourself up to a bunch of strangers and hope that they like you enough to pay attention to what you have to say. Writing is, after all, the easiest way to