I was up at 3:45 this morning. The less said about that, the better. CM kindly drove me to the airport, where I had one of the smoothest boa...

On Monday night we watched Penn State's production of Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (well, the dress rehearsal). It w...

Today was Miss V's first day visiting Penn State. After we breakfasted from the magic breakfast nook , I dropped her off on campus and b...

(As per usual, events are backdated to the day when they occurred, but will only be posted after the fact, because reasons.) Miss V and ...

OK, right now my house is a midden. Seriously. Last week Captain Midnight and I pulled everything off the floors in the front room and our b...

No, not this kind of challenge . I'm most likely to reconsider my conscious choice not to own a smartphone when I'm traveling. ...

Got up at Oh Dark Hundred and flew from SeaTac to Long Beach to Salt Lake, then got on the FrontRunner and eventually picked up a rental car...

"Out there" in this case being Utah. OK, you may not think Utah is very adventurous, but when you're about to embark on an app...

Once upon a time there was a Little Miss V. And after a while she grew up to be a Big Miss V and was ready for some solo adventures. So she ...

Miss V has lived with us since 2007, and in all that time Captain Midnight and I have never once taken her to Canada. (Appalling, no? It...

Well, here we are in the glittering urbane metropolis of Shelley, Idaho. The town's primary claim to fame is growing potatoes, and its a...

I haven't had the time or inclination to cover my entire vacation in Florida as it occurred. However, I did make some short lists of thi...

I should probably tell you about our current adventures in Florida and what we've been doing over the past few days. I should tell you a...

Our last day on Oahu. Having fun, Captain Midnight?  "You betcha!" How 'bout you, Miss V?  "I LOVE IT HERE!"...

Sunday.  We had our church meetings at the Hukilau Chapel, which has an interesting bit of local history. See, back in 1940, the wooden LD...

So after days of semi-patient waiting for her particular kind of fun, Miss V was finally rewarded on Saturday.  After a leisurely start, we ...