Small adventures in strange places

My brother was reading a biography about the development of the F-117, the stealth fighter. According to the author, the first visceral fee...

Saw this on a forum.

The best line I heard from last night: Girl: I've never been to a party in Virginia where the host didn't speak to me all night. Hos...

In one of the few discussions I've had with my father about the Viet Nam war, he felt that one of the biggest mistakes made in that conf...

My fellow bloggers, let me deliver a state of the house: it is falling apart. The fence between us and Jay's fell down in the wind. The ...

The washington post ran a story last week about the role that context plays in aesthetics. In the article, Joshua Bell, a famous violinist...

Our first clue that something was the matter on an otherwise blissful Saturday morning was a loud banging noise that reverberated in the wal...

Its been a long time since I've watched TV of any kind, and I'd forgotten just how annoying the ads are. I find it especially frus...

So, here's some perspective for you. I'm in the wealthiest 99.76% globally. Combine that with the fact that I'm pretty happy,...

It never fails to impress me just how difficult it is to measure happiness...you'd think with something as central to our lives, we'...

One of the more interesting things I've found through American Footprints is Inside Iraq . It "chronicles daily life in a war zon...

For tensies we went to Clarendon's Mardi Gras parade, just to see what it was like. Sadly, it was raining, and the parade was motorized...

I saw this in Hampi, at an Indian water park. I'm sure there's a reasonable explaination, I just don't know it...

I saw the movie Tristram Shandy over the weekend. Very interesting, though I did get a little boring in the middle. The Washington post re...

I mean this one literally. My friends Krissy and Yurii are the proud new parents of 7 pound 13 ounce by 21" beautiful baby girl. She ...

Its my brother's birthday today. Happy Birthday, Frank! He's 23, so everyone wish him a happy one.

"Rick Merritt, executive director of PostalWatch, a nonprofit watchdog group." Its from today's post . A postal watchdog group...