Don has been on vacation from Union Cab this week. One project he's been looking forward to is getting the tools and learning the method for making
a New York style pizza: thin, chewy crust with a good, firm body, not too much sauce, not too fancy on the toppings. Just good tomato pizza sauce made from scratch, natch, with mozzerella and pepperoni. He got a pizza stone for baking on. Must have a very high temperature, around 500F. And, to build the pizza on, and to slide it in and out of the overn, a wooden peel -- one of ...   more »

Lake View Elementary School playground, home of lots of jungle gym slide sets, and the only playground I know of in town that's shaded at midday, thanks to a stand of lovely old oak trees. Far less than a mile from home, it's an easy bike ride.

So quick a bike ride, in fact, that U is usually not ready to get off the bike by the time we arrive. He grabs at his helmet, clutches at his bike seat straps, and otherwise shows that he wants more riding. So around the grassy field we go, threading our way through ...   more »

Ulysses was working at one his favorite tasks, scrubbing the toilet in the front bathroom. I left him happily at it for a minute or two, but when I came back to see how he was doing, he had added a new element.

He looked joyfully up at me as I approached, glad to show me what he'd done: he'd put his life-sized toy biscuit into the water, and it bobbed gaily in the bowl as he plunged the toilet brush up and down. But his pride quickly dissolved into confusion and shock.  Instead of praising his cleverness, I cried ...   more »