Work has been taking up just about all of my time, but I liked doing pottery so much last time I tried it that I decided to make time to do...

I had a business trip over the weekend. Food trucks were also involved. And so were monsters and aliens. Anyone want to guess wher...

The new heater is looking great, isn't it?

Here's my new heater. It looks great, doesn't it? But it didn't seem like it was generating that much heat. I peered in th...

Friday afternoon, my office phone rang. I waved to my guests - a writer and an assistant - to shush for a moment and answered. "Mari...

Time off is clearly detrimental to my impulse to fix things. I don't even own this place!  But I pulled up a piece of broken floorbo...

I started the year out strong, by dismantling an electric heater that's been terrifying me every winter morning in this apartment since...

Stuff I did in 2014:  -Learned how to properly cook a steak.  -Learned to throw pots (very poorly, but still).  -Missed out on an a...

The guys are feeling especially Christmas-y this year.

Good news today! I can finally show you some dinosaur photos from 2010 in Cuba.