These days, we’d probably say that even the low-sodium variety had too much salt but in the good ol’ days, there was a vegetable drink wi...

I had an excellent time at the Chicago Autism Connection’s Spring Fling resource fair, this past Saturday. There was an excellent panel ...

My son, who introduces these blogs a lot, is a big fan of Subway® restaurant. Since it caters to meat-lovers and vegetarians, can be fou...

A cartoon fairy god-person, holding a clipboard, hovers over a man holding a briefcase and says: “After Federal, State and Local taxes, y...

My son’s latest mission is to collect car parts. This might be because he has an almost-eleven-year-old’s confidence that if he collects...

In a cartoon, there was a rather large gentleman, wearing a hodgepodge of household gadgets connected by wires stands happily in front of...

In 2014, Fox aired The Simpsons Guy. Extra credit if you can tell me which two dysfunctional, mildly obnoxious cartoon families starred ...

One of the minor characters in the recent Sony Pictures animated film Peter Rabbit is a buck. As with the other anthropomorphic animals ...

“Too much of a good thing…” is primarily used to describe an abundance of something that has crossed the line from being beautiful, pleas...

I finally, recently learned how to add the “traffic” view to my Google Maps display. This is supposed to show me, in real time, the vehi...

I was in the mall with my son recently, trying to remember which of the dozen sports shoe stores had the one pair of Mom-would-need-a-sec...

Inner Workings is the Disney animated short that preceded Moana in the theaters. The film depicts an office worker who needs to use bot...

There is an old children’s joke: “What does an 800-pound gorilla get to eat?” Answer: “All it wants to.” Despite the well-documented fa...

One of my all-time favorite Sesame Street characters—even now—is “Lefty”, the fast talking, trenchcoat-wearing street salesman. In one e...

“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” is a quote, popularly attributed to Benjamin Franklin (althou...

NFL Coach Firings: Who’s gone, openings and candidates (January 2, 2019, 10:31 AM). Meet the 2019 Draft Quarterback Class: Everything you...

The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life (by Lee Eisenberg, and not to be confused with a ridiculous tw...

The Wall Street Journal on 12/11/18 had a fun story on the creativity of pet tortoises, particularly when it comes to escaping their encl...

Some of you may have seen a clichéd-but-true sign that someone posted on LinkedIn a few days ago. It reads: We have three kinds of servi...

Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same thing. It means that everyone gets what they need. –Rick Riordan (1964- ), author of ...