Yeah, I know it\’s only June, but I just can\’t wait to go to Target and get my new, hot-pink Trapper Keeper. And new pencils!
OK, fine, I haven\’t gone shopping for school supplies in years, and on the first day of my summer class this year, I didn\’t even have a writing utensil. Unfortunately, all [...]

NPR thinks the Army\’s new uniforms are too frumpy. Well, actually, I don\’t know if they think so, but they gave the idea enough credence to interview a Washington Post fashion editor about it.
The new duds, which according to the report are the Army\’s first uniform change in more than 20 years, have a different [...]

There is an old, flaking, red picnic table in the back yard beneath which things appear. Mostly, those things are grass, since I can\’t get the lawn mower under there (I started drawing up plans to move the table, but it was too difficult, logistically).
Many hundreds of ants have also appeared there, as if [...]

There are Christians, I\’m sure, who, finding themselves on the side of a highway with a flat tire, have asked \”What Would Jesus Do?\” and were serious about it.
There are also Christians (many more of them, I think) who, in the same circumstances, have asked the same question as a joke, and then wiped the [...]

How could I not link to this? It\’s a video of my 3rd cousin (not sure about that, but she\’s related to me somehow) being adorable.

Her name is Emma (short for Emmanuelle), and her mom is Laura, my 2nd cousin (again, I\’m not really sure what to call her) who lives in Paris. Be sure [...]

I woke this morning with a nagging feeling that I had dreamt of a really great topic to write about. And now that I think about it, I\’m sure I did; it was one of those moments when you think \”I must find a word-recording machine urgently.\”
Except that I wasn\’t awake. So the best I [...]

Why is it that only old people have rain gauges? Have you ever seen someone in their twenties outside wondering how much rain fell in the last storm?
You haven\’t, because people only start caring how many inches of rain fell after they reach a certain age. It\’s different for everyone, like puberty. Some people start [...]

Who says watching TV makes kids less physically active? In the two weeks since the Timberwolves-Lakers series ended my friends and I have played basketball three times.
The level of play has been laughable, but the nice thing about basketball is it’s good exercise whether you play well or not.
That said, now I can really appreciate [...]

The results are in: 38 miles to the gallon. And if you think I\’m kidding, it was actually more like 38.46 miles to the gallon. See, specificity implies fact.
But I don\’t need to imply, because it\’s true. All that coasting and gliding and driving slow paid off; my car gets hybrid-like mileage. In a way, [...]

From my dorm room in Berkeley you could see the Golden Gate Bridge. Actually, from where I slept, eight stories above a football-field-sized parking lot, you could see all kinds of things; Oakland, The Bay Bridge, Alcatraz, that Triangle Skyscraper (the Transamerica Pyramid), and Coit Tower.

Photo: California Coastal Records Project (if you\’ve never seen [...]