Mind Flush

I was suffering from the effects of having to drink the equivalent of an entire Big Gulp every hour I was awake for the previous day, in a...

This year Liza decided she wanted to compete in the Lego Olympiad as an individual, rather than a team like last year.  So when she kept pu...

Quick!  Find three things wrong with this picture: 1.  "Hey, let's take up seven prime parking spots by parking the bus where you c...

So I was all, "Go clean your room," and she did.  But it still looked messy, and she didn't have places to put stuff. So I wa...

That is all.

Again, in app-mandated wackado order: - Shark embryos, sea jellies, and sea dragons (oh my!) at the Shedd - Goofing off on the Ledge at Th...

Spring Break + Mythbusters exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry = a perfect excuse for a road trip. Photos in an app-mandated wacky...

- I have to measure the amount of butter in our meal in cups (and I'm not the one making dessert). - The kid has been up since at leas...

(It's sad to say that the title came up automatically when I started typing "10." Guess I've been down this road before .....

Notice how stressed out and generally verklempt this dude is. I'll have what he's having, with an extra helping packed up to go, p...

...any time the temp goes above freezing. Yes, it's january and my kid is running around the frond yard in a tshirt and polarfleece-blan...

Recently I was reading through a book on stress reduction, and it mentioned that overusing the internet is a new  numbing mechanism for peop...

Liza's resolution for 2011 was to finally lose a tooth, and she managed it just in the nick of time!

Yes, that's the Wright Brothers airplane attacking a beribboned dinosaur that's eating a miniature Yosemite Sam. On my Christmas tre...

"These would be perfect for Grandma!"