Wow, what a spectacular weekend!  As luck would have it, our first annual, family camping trip was met with perfect weather, and the most beautiful, wondrous fall back drop imaginable.  The landscape was dotted with dramatic fall color, from the hard…

We Midwesterners are pretty well accustomed to driving in some of the worst conditions Mother Nature can bestow – rain, sleet, ice, snow, wind, etc.  Sure there are still those idiots, particularly those who drive large, intimidating SUV’s, who just seem…

They happen every day – mostly by the ill-informed, mis-informed, careless or just plain malevolent, and it’s the latter I have a problem with. I witnessed such a crime this Sunday in my own neighborhood, and I felt truly sickened…