The year that was - adios, 2006 ...Wow, I flee from the outside world for a week at the beach and come back to find James Brown, Gerald Ford...

Merry hiatus, ho ho ho ...So it's almost our first Christmas in New Zealand , and it's been interesting to compare and contrast. It...

Year in review: Favorite books of 2006 I'm a readin' fool, as most anyone who knows me will attest. According to my somewhat obsessi...

More deep thoughts The best album to get your 3-year-old some exercise when it's been raining the last two days straight and you're ...

Deep thoughts So we watched the animated movie "Cars" (which Peter had to see three times over the course of the weekend), and it...

Year in Review: My Top 5 CDs of 2006 Man, I bought a lot of music this year, but I didn't seem to buy a lot of music from this year. I ...

Assorted linkbloggery Wow, we move to this side of the world and Australia bursts into flames and Fiji has (yet another) coup . Can the ris...

Review: "Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut" There have been a lot of great comic book movies in the past decade, yet for me, I t...

Things that are different here, Part 2 The language in New Zealand, of course, is the same down under but kinda different in a parallel univ...

Day at the races So yesterday we went out to the family beach house at Karekare for the annual beach races there. I've mentioned Kareka...