Here’s Jack in his new jammies admiring the nice clean floor.

I thought I’d mention a couple of things that I have found to be very useful that you might be interested in: Have you tried del.icio.us? It’s a “social bookmarking” tool that is great for people like many of us, who have a big, unwieldy Bookmark list and need something a little more robust to keep track of all the sites we want to keep...

We found this recipe in an RBC cookbook, contributed by Mrs. Wilcoxon. I’ll never make deviled eggs the old way, with mustard, again. 1 dozen eggs 6 slices of bacon, crumbled (by the way, I realized recently that you get a much better result by snipping the bacon into small pieces with kitchen scissors before you fry it, instead of crumbling it after you fry...

I’ve been looking at lots of photos online lately, and assumed that the difference in the quality was that those people had better cameras than I did. Well, I just ran across a Photoshop tutorial that made me realize that many of these images that I’ve seen that I thought were so amazing were good pictures to start with made even better with Photoshop. ...

Jack was 14 months old on Sunday. He’s got decent vocabulary going- he says baby, bite (which he’s gotten mixed up with bye bye, so says “bu-bite” plaintively, hoping you’ll give him something tasty), cracker (ca-kee, his favorite food, is any kind of cracker), out, bear, duck, cat, go, bye, car, boots and da-da. Da-da refers to all...