The 30-something suburban guy

All right, so when I looked out the window and saw the kids not only raking the leaves in the yard but they were doing so ON THEIR OWN, WI...

A professor at Tufts argues why we shouldn't, as our Secretary of Education believes, abandon paper. He's talking mostly about the f...

It's amazing, but true. Old people smell, well, old. You might think that The Onion might publish this. But in the New York Times? htt...

Good news on the writing front - the Hartford Courant yesterday ran this essay I wrote about when to take down Christmas trees and holiday d...

It's the second day of the year - and I've just tied last year for total number of blog entries. I kind of took last year off in the...

It is a typical Friday or Saturday night. The kids are in bed, probably not sleeping, but at least they have retreated upstairs for the even...

It was another day of skinned knees and bicycle wipeouts in the driveway this weekend, at least four crashes just today by my count, which m...