I received this item from my friend Javi Nava and I thought it might be a good warning as well as a lesson in about misplacing the comma in...

Dr. Jan Gurley has been going to Haiti since the earthquake and is there now combating the disease, cholera, and the resulting severe dehydr...

I have found another proof of the existence of a just and merciful God. It is called the Twinkie diet. Just as I was about to lose all hope ...

Last year I planted three cherry tomato plants and we ended up eating cherry tomatoes all fall and winter and spring until we had cherry tom...

There is a Mexican Spanish phrase that I like to use and today it seems more appropriate than ever because it is both literal as well as fig...

About one billion people in the world watched the Chilean miners being rescued today and we all rejoiced in the triumph of the human spirit....

I once read that the average American can miss only nine meals before resorting to acts of desperation. I don't know who came up with th...

Yesterday I posted the Tommy Douglas "Mouseland" speech from 1944 and today I am posting his "Cream Separator" speech. I...

It just so happened that the day after I wrote a blog post about controlling mice I saw an item on Cory Doctorow's blog about the famou...

Somewhere along our evolutionary journey the fates of humans and mice became intertwined just like it came to pass with dogs and cats. The ...