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Playing cornhole without beer feels a bit childish-- especially if you're playing with other adults-- you quickly realize that you'r...

I was about to go for a run, wearing my headphones, the cord dangling-- I hadn't attached the headphone jack to my phone yet-- when I re...

Lisa Feldman Barrett's new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain  is psychologically groundbreaking-- it upends intui...

Yesterday, I bought my first ever "growler" of beer, from a local brewery a couple miles from my house; Cypress Brewing Company i...

This week on The Test , I quiz the ladies (including special guest Little Allie Hogan) on all the various things we consume; the numbers ...

Before If you've been following my life lately (which you should) then you know that I tore a hole in the side panel of my Toyot...

Is Heavy Meta a good name for a band?

Sadly, the baby dove that my two sons were trying to resuscitate back to life died yesterday-- they were hand-feeding it, Brooks-style, and ...

David Grann's book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is a tough story in more ways than one; it'...

I went for a run with the dog this morning on the towpath (the narrow park between the Raritan River and the Delaware and Raritan Canal) ...

Another clever thematic music quiz from Stacey this week on The Test  . . . so listen to the song clips, identify the artists, contempla...

Lisa Feldman Barrett begs to differ with the opening premise of Tolstoy's  Anna Karenina : "Happy families are all alike; every unh...

I've just finished showering the dirt and grit and sweat and talcum powder off my body, accumulated from hiking twenty plus miles-- the ...

Not only did I eat at a pizza place that I had never tried before ( Pasquales  . . . delicious, thin chewy crust and they put a bit of pesto...

Testify and praise the good lord above, because I prayed and my prayers were answered-- that is correct: I found Jesus last night . . . he a...

I gave my students a final quiz on Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" this morning; I told them to use all the know...

Catherine comes home from San Francisco tonight, and while the house is a bit of a mess, I think she'll be pleased that both her gardens...

We finally got a new TV . .  a 55 inch Ultra HD LG; to break it in, we watched Poltergeist and I had an odd complaint: the picture was t...

All this scene needs is for  James Franco  to show up.

I've been really proud of my boys the past week-- it seems they've forsaken the behaviors that dominated this school year: fighti...