The small apple tree in my back yard still has a few apples clinging to their branches months after they should have fallen. They’re not...

On September 11th, 2001, Kristy and I were moving into a new apartment in Columbus, OH. We had lived in Berlin for a year, and we were...

Four years ago today, Kristy and I started a trip to Frankfurt, Germany. We deliberately scheduled a long layover in San Diego, since...

Conor and I saw Black Widow in the theater today, and we both loved it. The movie was originally supposed to open in May 2020, but then...

Kristy and I received this chip-and-dip plate as a wedding gift almost 19 years ago. Our wedding was in August, so it wasn't some sort of...

Conor has been at Bartle Boy Scouts camp for a week, and today was Visitors Day. He showed us the Lakefront and a cliff overlook called...

I worked a lot today. I did. I turned in a couple projects and made some good progress on some archival rewrites and did some research...

Day 4: Monday Afternoon and Evening Some random thoughts about Arches National Park: - We saw several roadside signs on our trip that...

Day 3: Monday Morning We tried to get into Arches National Park at 8:00 a.m., but the Parks Service had already shut down the park and...

Day 2: Sunday Yesterday was an episodic travel day with a lot of unique things, so there's no overall narrative. Just a handful of really...

Day 1: Saturday There’s never enough time to do everything you want to do in and around Denver. Even if you had a week here, you wouldn’t...

This morning as I was sitting in the bleachers watching Grant play tee-ball, I overheard a conversation a nearby family nearby was...

I said goodbye to Benjy two years ago today. It's one of those memories that makes me stop for a minute and...not really think, but...

I've been going through my phone off and on for the last week, clearing things out in preparation for an upgrade. I've had this phone for...

R.E.M.’s Out of Time turns 30 years old today. I knew there was music before this album. But I didn’t know there was music like this...

Sometimes I see or hear or experience things and put words to them as the day goes by, but they don't really fit anywhere. Occasionally I...

Conor’s Scouts troop planned an urban hike in Kansas City yesterday, and Conor was kind enough to let me tag along. We walked more than 6...

I was laid off a year ago today. I don’t know what I’m supposed to call today. Is it a “Laid-off-iversary?” “Anti-versary?” “Professional...

Beginning around mid-March last year, I stopped looking at my Facebook memories. I used to look at them pretty often. As the years...

Let’s just get this out of the way up front: This year has sucked in a lot of pretty obvious ways. I’m not going to revisit all of that...