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Two of my friends combined to buy my wife and me a combination toaster oven/breadmaker as a wedding present 11 years ago. Neither of us had ever baked bread. My wife is a very ative baker, but not of bread. I became the breadmaker in the family, and really love it. This winter I have [...]

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Dec 24th, 2008 | Filed under Family, Food

This post is written from an expressly Roman Catholic perspective, with an intended audience of other Roman Catholics.  If you are not Catholic, you are more than welcome to read it, but please do not be surprised that it makes assumptions and appeals to authority that have no meaning for you. My goal in this [...]

Oct 30th, 2008 | Filed under Family, Life, Politics, Religion

Earlier last week we were all driving home in the early evening.  Our older daughter has a school project that requires her to check the phase of the moon every other night.  So we were watching the moon as we drove home.  It was big orange Hunter’s Moon, hanging pretty low in the sky, and [...]

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Oct 23rd, 2008 | Filed under Family
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A few weekends ago we took our 2 daughters to see Kit Kittredge: An American Girl.  I’m not sure whether the movie is even still in theaters, so this review is late, but might be interesting to people once it is released on DVD.  Our older daughter, 8, is a big American Girl fan.  The [...]

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Aug 11th, 2008 | Filed under Americana, Family, Movies, Reviews