I often get requests to review products on my blog.  I turn down 99% of them because I don’t want my blog to become a commercialized product...

(That’s “Finally!  A good German restaurant in Seattle!”) This is NOT a review for Feierabend “German” restaurant in downtown Seattle.  If...

I just finished watching The Mormon Proposition , which chronicles the Mormon’s huge financial contributions to and repugnant reactions agai...

What proportion of “mankind” can afford $110 jeans ?  Seriously?  “ ALL MANKIND”?  I don’t think so !  Seven Jeans Company, when’s the...

Even though I won’t begin my new job for another week, my new boss encouraged to pick out a laptop and “make it mine” now so I can jump ...

One of Tom’s favorite magazines is Sport Rider because it appeals to the speed-demon, leather-wearing, risk-taking rebel in him.  The fact ...

I rarely do product reviews.  I only take the time to write about products here if I really love something or really hate something . Tod...

I really should be working, but it’s Saturday morning and I’m really tired of working all the frikkin’ time, so I decided to experiment with...

My dad is a bit of a celebrity around Ashland, Oregon.  Maybe that’s just an adoring daughter speaking (I grew up thinking he looked just l...

After weeks of drooling over Peter’s new iPod Touch and then enduring the agony of watching Kat buy one too, I knew that in order to protect...

My mother-in-law has been visiting us from her home in Palm Springs, California since last week. Over the past few days we’ve shopped and b...

Unlike the very elaborate celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary last year, we celebrated our 26th anniversary today quietly, relative...

So I got a new cell phone today.  Before you get all “la-dee-da” and “whoop-dee-do” on me, allow me an evening to be downright excited abo...