A skewer is, like the fork, pretty much a mature technology. It was probably the first kitchen tool and that we continue to use them is...

We use a lot of pepper at Casa Moose, probably averaging more than a tablespoon per day. Our last grinder was an Oxo which, while...

the one thing that distinguishes happy people from unhappy people, is that happy people place happiness as their highest priority whereas...

I've always felt that gourmet store made sausage from the major chains was a bit too subdued for my taste. Never enough spice and flavor....

A Detour into the Past The beach house was in the vicinity of Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base, where I spent First through Sixth...

A couple of years ago I replaced the wood walls of the carport. The wood was encrusted with layers of paint, rotting and must have been...

On our recent cross-country trip we ate massive amounts of BBQ including some of the most excellent smoked brisket ever. I could hardly...

I am not a medical professional ... But the the people who wrote the studies referenced below are. Three years ago, I was prescribed...

As soon as Mrs. Moose heard that her daughter-in-law was going to drop a baby, she immediately went into high speed wobble and began to...

A short 5 hour drive from Winnemucca brings us finally to the end of our journey. Arriving home we find everything covered by a thin...

You would think that if you're allowed to drive 80, and if you saw signs that said speed limits are strictly enforced, that you would get...

Leaving Paducah we head west and north to Kansas City and then to Sioux Falls. Not much to report about this leg of the trip. Passing...

Leaving Atlantic City we trace our way back through North Carolina and Tennessee and somewhere along the way stop, by pure chance, at a...

I failed to travel down to Camp Lejeune where I spent First through Sixth grades because it would have eaten up half the day at minimum. ...

I recently finished Robert Plomin's new book, blueprint how DNA makes us who we are. Plomin is a Professor of Behavioral genetics at...

Finally, we meet the granddaughter, Iris. That evening, Eva cried more than the baby... a lot more. I can't begin to express what a...

It is my strong belief that the street address of a house should match up to the actual street the house is located on but I guess this...

Final dead armadillo count appears to be 9. The critters must be weighted like a child's sippy cup in reverse, in that the intact dead...

After leaving Holiday Island, we make a short stop in the historic town of Eureka Springs which, like Sutter Creek, exists merely to milk...

Holiday Island is a little resort community located on a lake in the upper northwest corner of Arkansas. The weather is perfect and the...