Mind Flush

So after a few too many days of the weather looking like this... (Yes, that's snow. It always snows before Halloween, at least in Cleve...

If you go to the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus an hour early, you're allowed to go down onto the floor to check out some ...

First, there was the birthday party, which Liza absolutely loved but which left her wired for about, oh, three days. Next came Boo at the Zo...

10:30am My daughter is sitting downstairs by the front door, wrapped birthday present in hand, waiting to go to her first-ever birthday part...

Okay, we all know my daughter is a little, um, unique. She comes up with the oddest ways to use toys ... like using her Duplo blocks to make...

http://www.clevelandhandmade.com/?page_id=70 The Cleveland Handmade etsy team has an orange-and-black challenge going, with voting continuin...

Well, the trees haven't hit the peak they did last year , but I'm still getting some good shots down by the river. Notice I left ou...

Two things I forgot to include in the Really Too Detailed trip descriptions: Jason, to Liza sometime during the day, after she had developed...

Last day of sightseeing - good thing, too, since I had to delete some of the duplicate photos from my camera's memory card so I'd ha...

Okay, I have no photos from this day, so I have very little idea what we actually did. I remember killing time in a parking lot while Liza ...

Okay, so rather than wait a few more months for my thyroid to explode (ha! there's a mental picture!) and probably forget to get the fo...

What I wrote October 14, 2005: I got the results from the ultrasound today - I have a nodule on my left thyroid lobe. AKA see, I'm...

Remember my great-grandmother's photo in front of Balanced Rock ? Well, the donkeys are long gone, but the rock is still there, and so w...

Okay, sometimes the old Google search doesn't give good results, like when you're looking for fish that can walk . However, if you p...

First stop of the day (after the rock selection in front of the hotel) was Hammond's Candies , a local manufacturer of mostly hard candi...

Remember the puke bucket ? Yeah, it's been in pretty frequent use around here since I got The Call from Liza's preschool yesterday....

Side note for today - Is it really necessary to have a Chipotle restaurant located every 15 feet throughout the entire state? I mean, I lik...

Every morning began the same way: Liza had to choose which of the landscape rocks outside our hotel room she wanted to bring with us in the ...