As challenging as it is to cook Thanksgiving dinner when you have two small children, I have to say this evening’s meal was a fabulous success. Our neighbors cooked a turkey for the carnivores and I made the rest. Not only did we get things done at approximately the same time, but for the first [...]

Last night while I was making dinner, there was a knock at our front door. Standing there in the dusky light were three little girls from our neighborhood with some rakes and a wheelbarrow offering to rake up the leaves in our yard–front and back–for two dollars. Raking leaves was on our massive to do [...]

Back before blogging (or at least before I knew about it), I created my very own Soapbox here on ChezArtz. My very first post in 2002 still seems timely, so I have copied it here: Soapbox # 1 – Democracy July 12, 2002 By the People, For the People? Our Founding Fathers said it best [...]