First off, just in case anyone thought I was kidding about those two neighbors feuding over a little maple tree, I present this photograph a...

In an hour or so we'll head over to a local home-improvement store to buy a lawn mower. From there we'll drop by the village diner a...

This is a big day, one of several we've circled on the calendar, but our joy is subdued. Yesterday afternoon my wife got word that one o...

Our host-tormentors now know when we're moving out of alcohell. We're prepared for the nastiness that's sure to follow. Since th...

I can't pronounce it, either, but I don't need to speak Icelandic to take its lessons. This sub-Arctic volcano began trembling its w...

At this moment 15 years ago, an American with a truck bomb attacked the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. His act of murde...

For the last three years, the 84-year-old woman who owns our new place has shared her life with a Shih Tzu she calls "Lil Mac" -- ...

I'm not fond of visiting the dentist -- I never have been and I probably never will be. So when I lost a filling a few weeks ago, I deci...

Former Arizona congressman J.D. Hayworth is challenging Sen. John McCain for the U.S. Senate seat that McCain has held since 1987. Although ...

Here, presented without preamble, is some of what Rep. Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, said during an interview last week: "The Tea...

The 2009-2010 Ohio State basketball team's season ended a couple of weeks ago with a three-point loss to Tennessee, but Buckeyes star Ev...

Recent headlines and cultural fixations offer food for thought. They're not bad fodder for bumper stickers, either. 'Save the Bullie...

This morning brought news of an underground explosion at a coal mine in southern West Virginia. Media are reporting 25 miners dead, four mis...

While I was on the phone this morning, expressing my habit of doodling in three dimensions I picked up that old Estwing hatchet and began t...

Each and every time I've wandered the maze of aisles at an indoor antiques mall recently, a certain old-school tool has caught my eye. Y...

Rolling out of bed at 6:30am borders on sloth, at least for me, but that's what I've done both yesterday and today. Once awake, just...

For four solid hours this afternoon, a home inspector crawled over, under, around and through the house we plan to buy. As expected, he saw ...

I know people who won't do business on Friday the 13th, for fear of inscribing that date on some important document. While that seems si...

The ink is dry -- we're officially (and irrevocably, if we choose) "in contract." The home inspector arrives Friday afternoon...