Mrs. KintlaLake and I just returned from her parents' house, where we all celebrated our younger spawn's birthday. Both teenagers s...

On my way to the storage unit today, I saw a carload of clues . A rather large, middle-aged woman was behind the wheel of a late-model Toyot...

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Today's mail brought the RAT Cutlery RC-4 I'd ordered on Monday, so I took a break from packing boxes to give it a once-over. If it...

Yeah, I know I said I was done talking sharps for a while, but something just happened that deserves a post. I caught a bit of flak from a ...

For KintlaLake and family, a household move is inevitable – and it's looming , although I can't yet say exactly how close it is. My ...

Thanks to the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, everyone knows who Ray Nagin is -- mayor of New Orleans, would-be architect of a "Chocolate Cit...

Tonight at 8:30pm, everyone on planet Earth is being asked to switch off their lights for an hour -- Earth Hour . A project of World Wildlif...

I think I've said almost enough about sharps this week -- almost . There's one more post in me, something I've been rolling over...

After waxing lustful about a pair of handmade knives in yesterday's post , I was reminded that I really hadn't given the sheaths the...

It's a KintlaLake morning ritual -- at 5am I stumble down to the kitchen, fetch two cups of black coffee and bring them back to the bed...

As much as I love a good knife, I'm already on-record as not being fond of throwing wads of cash at esoteric über blades: "To be ...

Mrs. KintlaLake was on the road at 6:30am this morning, ferrying our older spawn to a paintball engagement. The other teenager was still in ...

When our Founding Fathers framed the First Amendment, they didn't require a reality check or include a sanity clause. Pity, that. Still,...

Sen. Judd Gregg, the New Hampshire Republican, issued a statement yesterday, criticizing proposals to tax the AIG bonuses. It begins, ...

For independent citizen-patriots, here's the Quote of the Day: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."...

Today I'm going to devote some space to "the barns" I mentioned in last Saturday's post , and how my vision of a familiar ...

A present life is about noticing , mostly. This morning I've been noticing how I'm dealing with yesterday's news of my father...