Now that I have wanderlust from visiting the LA Times Travel show and collecting all kinds of food for fantasy, my lucky husband is leaving me behind to go to Stuttgart in Germany for a week. He’ll be doing engine testing in “The Cradle of the Automobile,” as the city is known, so he won’t [...]

See what I did there? I combined the words “blog” and “observation.” Ugly, isn’t it. Yeah, that’s why I hate things like that. I’ve been tracking my statistics very unofficially since this blog began. It is interesting to me that the topics that have gotten the most traffic are penises, death, and birth. What about [...]

Turn them into traveling minstrels Make a “pillow pie” Let them eat paint Build a solar system (You’ll need Dad’s help) Make a “rocket” and convince them to stay in it for a couple of light years This is an original post from www.kimtracyprince.com. Please don’t steal it.

This morning I read a sad article in the Los Angeles Times about people selling anything they can on Craigslist just to make ends meet. It was “Craigslist as a mirror” of our times, reflecting the alarming and depressing economic downturn. My heart breaks for all of the people who are getting laid off from [...]