Thomas Midgley was a well known chemist and inventor who held over 100 patents in his lifetime, but he’s most notorious for two chemicals...

Each year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires Continuum of Care (CoC) organizations to count the number of...

In the winter of 1994 my grandmother took me to the movie theater one Friday evening. I was a teenager at the time and hoped...

As a child we owned a few main stables like Monopoly, Life, Sorry and a standard deck of cards. The typical Parker Brothers type games...

As mentioned before I am a child of the 80s and as such I grew up without the internet. While I acknowledge it is a huge part of my life...

The internet is a fickle place where in the blink of an eye you can become famous, be disgraced or have your story shared millions of...

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie As a child...

“It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the...

I have long been aware of Kickstarter but only within the last year have I been actively engaged. For the uninitiated Kickstarter is a...

From the moment I woke up the TV has been on and turned to the inauguration of our 46th president. Our nation has been facing challenges...

I grew up in a household that had rather strong views on race. That is to say there were strong opinions on one or two other races....

Growing up I felt that my generation was cutting edge and that we had things our parents could never have even dreamt about in their dark...

I have a growing list of blog ideas but sometimes a moment in my day will give me inspiration. Today was a full day of helping houseless...

Being homeless has a great many challenges and among the most significant is staying warm during the winter months. Naturally, the...

One of the amazing thing about parenthood is seeing how kids personalities develop. I am the proud gather of 4 and each of my children...

"Weird Al" Yankovic has been around forever but I never really listened to him. As mentioned before I grew up in a conservative...

I would like to consider myself an experienced (avid) geocacher. With thousands of finds spread all across America and even some...

Construx and Capsela the OTHER building sets from the 80s Lego has been the leader in toy construction for generations but many other...

Origami is the art of paper-folding. Its name derives from the Japanese words ori (“folding”) and kami/gami (“paper”). Traditional...

“War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman said and as a general in the US Civil War I suppose he would know. The volume of wars that dot...