One mid-morning last week the power went out at our house unexpectedly. There were no storms or other obvious reasons for the outage. I...

There are some mornings when it doesn’t pay to get out of bed. Take this morning, for instance. I killed a wasp in my bathroom. Getting...

Every year or so I get that home renovation itch. Sometimes the itch gets scratched with a couple cans of paint, but there are other...