Last week, my van needed a jumpstart and it brought my van to life. Sadly, all it's done with this new sentience is to decide whether the driver’s door is closed. The other night, sitting alone on the driveway, it decided the door was open and turned on all the...

They are. We live in Montana, surrounded by millions of acres of pine forests. So each year for a Christmas tree we pay the National Forest $5 and head into the woods to find our tree. The biggest problem we have is that the average tree height is something like 40...

Fun fact for the day: It's true. I ran the numbers. And that’s at an average reading speed of about one page per minute. Fast readers can read around 5 million words in a year, just reading 15 minutes each day!

Just something to consider…

It’s open burn season in the mountains right now and that means cool, drizzly March days with a big fire in the yard as we burn the remains of several creepy old sheds that our property held. I love open burn season. On Sunday, we also managed to remember that, since...

Today's post is a throwback from two years ago, but unfortunately, a little piece of it has resurfaced and made it newly relevant to my life. My youngest son, dubbed appropriately Chaos, has a talent for making up words he thinks are nonsense, but in fact are not....

I’m having a spider problem. The problem is that they seem to really like me. I’m not particularly scared of spiders, but they do have that pop-out-of-no-where-to-freak-you-out factor. Normally, spiders just stick to ceilings and dark corners, but lately they’ve been...