by  MAB : "Why do you want me to bleed daddy?" This is what my then 5-year-old son said to me late one afternoon. For the t...

by  Seattle Jon : What do you remember? Leave a comment ... Seattle Jon I was an investment banker in Baltimore on 9-11. I was at my...

by  MAB  ( bio ) So, I was wasting time again on the internet when I stumbled upon some paintings that I find unusually intriguing. I d...

by  MAB  ( bio ) So says Garrison Keillor of the Prairie Home Companion radio show. Maybe, like other things in life, if you get too mu...

by  MAB  ( bio ) I was putting my son to bed tonight and not listening very closely to what he was telling me when I suddenly realized he ...

by  MAB  ( bio ) Behold the nuclear family. I was thinking about this metaphor recently: the family as an atom. I guess my incomple...

by  MAB  ( bio ) I have this affliction where I usually cannot stop reading a book once I start, no matter how bad it is. I say 'usu...

by  MAB  ( bio ) Crying Men by David Prior I cry about once every four years. I guess if I kept a journal like a good Mormon I would ...

by  MAB  ( bio ) Pena National Palace , Sintra, Portugal We just got back from a four-week vacation that included extensive travel ...

by  MAB  ( bio ) Since we moved to an apartment in Amsterdam nearly a year ago , we've had a little mouse problem. Apparently ...

by  MAB  ( bio ) Like many a good Mormon, I spent some time in and around Salt Lake City. I haven't been back though for more than ...

by MAB ( bio ) About six months ago we moved from stormy Seattle to stormy Amsterdam (Holland). So what's different here? Well for star...

by MAB  ( bio ) I just finished reading " 1Q84 ", a thousand page novel by Haruki Murakami . I've read four of his novels no...

by MAB ( bio ) When I was about eight years old my older brother had leukemia. The news and subsequent treatments were a hardship for the f...

by MAB ( bio ) Tadpoles are awesome. This young one here is just barely growing its front legs. I used to catch them as a child in rural ...

by  Seattle Jon  ( bio ) image via lookingattheleft.com What do you remember? Leave a comment ... Seattle Jon I was an investment ...

by MAB  ( bio ) I think I'm just a bunch of interconnected neurons. The essence of who I am, seems to me, to be nothing more than that...

by MAB  ( bio ) For family home evening I was sent out to the garage to find the Easter decoration box. It was hard to find among the Chri...

by MAB ( bio ) I recently finished a New York Times bestseller “Justice, What is the Right Thing To Do?” a book by Michael J. Sandel , Prof...