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We’ve been spending some of our recent days painting the house. To say that the work is thrilling is a bit of an overstatement (except it’s fun being able to look down from the heights...

Given the daily events that the news cycles so graphically capture, you could almost be forgiven for wanting to stay in bed all day with the covers pulled up over your head. And just dream...

We’re a bit of a landmass (well, maybe just a bit of land) here in New Zealand and we’re stuck way down in the Southern Hemisphere between the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea. The...

The trip back to New Zealand had us in the air for about 20 hours. Three flights, two layovers … and innumerable movies. It’s easy to grouse about some of the stuff that happens on...

Among the many institutions of higher learning, some are distinguished by their initials. MIT, USC, UCLA and TCU are just a few of the major universities that use their initials as brand names. And the...

We popped into a local box store the other day to pick up some odds and ends. We got there in the late afternoon — and it seemed like quite a few folks who also...

Given the vast amount of daily coverage (and the fascinating lunacy of many of the candidates) one might almost begin to believe that politics is our national pastime. But such a belief would be a...

Well, the wacky just seems to be getting wackier. Or, perhaps, bizarre is now the new norm. Either way, every waking day becomes increasingly more interesting (interesting being a word with many different connotations). The...

“The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.” — Barbara Tuchman, citing Tuchman’s Law in the preface to her 1978 narrative history, “A Distant Mirror.” One...

Spring is a wonderful time of year. All sorts of good things begin to reappear — flowers, greenery, baby birds, baseball. And you can definitely tack on a multitude of other seasonal wonders. But there’s...