Where there had been darkness...

With young Percy attending school in NYC, we have more opportunities to head into the city than we did before. Spring break was ending this ...

We took a family trip down to Washington D.C. over the weekend.  The original plan had been to visit the Century III ghost mall, but that’s ...

One of the big reasons that we were so excited about attending the Rhode Island Comic Con is because it put us close to Swan Point Ceme...

We had another in our series of good weekends. On Saturday, we got together with my friend Amy and her family and we all went to a local e...

Last Saturday, we went to Lily's cousin's party. The theme was Jake and the Neverland Pirates. My brother put on an episode during ...

So a while back we lost Lily's stuffed animal, Baby Bear. We had lost her at a local mall previously, but quickly recovered, but this ...

This was another full weekend. On Saturday, we kicked around for a little while and watched a new episode of Scooby Doo. It was about an e...

We had an extremely good Easter. I don't think it's a stretch to say that it's nicest Easter I've ever had. Jen and I got...

We had a pretty nice weekend. Out nephew, Lily's cousin Chris slept over on Friday and she absolutely adores him.  Sometimes we'll...

Et in Arcadia ego Netflix has the original Addams family for streaming, and we watched an episode last night. It's a good sho...

  I like cemeteries. I always have. Not for any mordant reason; just that they're peaceful and picturesque.  I'll talk about this a ...

My Grammy's sister-in-law, the woman I called Aunt Mickey, passed away at about 4:30 yesterday afternoon. We had visited her in the hosp...

No, not the heartbreaking animated movie of starvation in postwar Japan. Maybe a more accurate title would be "Some graves and some fir...