There was something new on the menu when I went to breakfast this morning. I ordered the Braised Short Rib Benedict basically because anythi...

Good grief. When I woke up this morning and looked out the window, I noticed that a large tree had fallen in the back yard. How did this hap...

I got an e-mail from the electric company today encouraging us to use less electricity because we are under an extreme heat advisory for the...

No long walks today. It was way too hot and we were too busy. After breakfast I tried to get organized so we could spend the afternoon with ...

It didn't really seems like a holiday today. It did seem like a Monday though. After a week of eating restaurant meals, I returned to my...

I walked ten miles today. I walked on the treadmill at the gym for a while. I walked along the lake. And I walked up on the roof clearing aw...

As we were driving between Midland and Odessa on Monday, it never crossed my mind that this long, flat stretch of highway would become the s...

Traveling is always more enjoyable than what comes afterwards. Today we unpacked, did a lot of laundry, and resumed our regular routines. I ...

We're home. Texas has a little bit of everything. We traveled from some of the most congested areas of the country to some of the most r...

I've decided that I like the hilly parts of Texas a lot more than the flat parts. The Davis Mountains were beautiful. We had breakfast t...

Tonight was an adventure. We saw lots of Javelina pigs. Some of them were very close but we didn't get attacked. We saw enough deer cros...

We made it to Fort Davis. Texas is a very big state. The drive was a little over seven hours and covered a lot of flat open land. Around Am...

I got off to a slow start this morning. I was planning to go to the gym early, but that didn't happen. All my little errands took twice ...

I was looking for a key this afternoon and realized that I didn't know what half the keys on my key ring even went to anymore. These key...

Every time I go to the bank I wonder what has happened to jobs in this country. There are lots of empty offices and very few employees. All ...

Sometimes simple things can take forever. I was trying to add some software to my laptop that was already on my desktop computer. I've h...

I got a letter from the Editor at Sky & Telescope today saying that the magazine was interested in my proposal for an article about the ...