Happy Fourth of July! We celebrated by barbecuing in the backyard on my new grill (it's great), talking to our daughter by phone as she was on the Esplanade in Boston waiting for the fireworks to begi

Every once in a while there comes along a taste, a smell, a fleeting glimpse that stimulates the memory center of the brain. Sometimes the memories are terrible. Just ask someone with PTSD. But someti

Just got back from a midnight showing of Pixar's newest feature-length film "WALL•E" and I've gotta say it may just have catapulted itself into the position of my favorite Pixar flick yet. The animati

Last night the family watched the conclusion of Discovery's "When We Left Earth." It left all of us wishing that the series had been longer, that it had been aired earlier in the day so that youngster

Friday night saw the Red Sox organization pay tribute to the NBA Champion Boston Celtics (oh yeah, I love seeing that in print again) by wearing green uniform shirts and mowing a shamrock into the cen