Sean and I drove out to Leduc today to check in on Mom and Dad's house again and to continue wrapping up Mom and Dad's affairs. On t...

This wagon wheel came from the Etsell farm. It's over half a century old, maybe even three-quarters of a century old. Mom and Dad have h...

  A little over 40 years ago, I co-hosted  If Your Parents Split . It's a half-hour show about children impacted by the divorce of their...

I picked up this wall-hanger thing for sixteen bucks and used it to display about 75% of my collection of buttons and pins dating from the 1...

 

 

 Yesterday Pete and Ellen once again hosted a spectacular multi-course meal, this time themed after Greece, where they spent their late hone...

2025 has been a tough year, and I needed sources of comfort. Friends and family have filled that role admirably, but so have books, films, a...

 

 

Will we still be here A thousand years from now Will there be clean air A thousand years from now Will we learn how to care A thousand years...

In our world, actress Gates McFadden played Chief Medical Officer Doctor Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation for every season...

 

It occurs to me that in a Dungeons & Dragons adventure that follows the story of a lawful good cleric, the dungeon master might call sai...

To create a little more storage space and home décor, I've been installing display shelves around our first floor. This new shelf is now...

 

 

Our Aunt Jean--second-youngest of the four Etsell sisters--is a painter, and she's generously shared her paintings with family. This por...

 

Today I installed a whimsical hanging shelf in my office crafted to represent a fire escape. Then I placed some action figures on it. These ...

 

Having not taken any sort of vacation all year long, Sylvia and I took a spontaneous day trip to Devonshire Beach in Slave Lake, Alberta. Th...

 

This is Doomsday, the guy that killed Superman back in 1992. Superman got better about a year later.  I'm not a fan of the character--if...

This is Hal Jordan of Earth, one of several Green Lanterns assigned to Sector 2814.