I got my comp copy of my final Marvel work for a while. I've switched teams and now I'm full-time with the Distinguished Competiti...

For years, I've been unplugging the coffee maker every morning so I can plug in the coffee bean grinder. Then I put away the grinder an...

I had easy experiences with my first two condos and also with buying my garage, but the house purchase continues to elude me. First...

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...