About 25 years ago, I came to the realization that I was getting headaches from dehydration. The problem started way back in 1986, after I first moved to Arizona. I primarily blamed the dry heat, of course. After all, it was not always obvious how much I was sweating; the ...

By now I’m sure most everyone has heard about the half billion eggs being recalled by a couple of Iowa farms. So far, about 2,000 people have reportedly become sick, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Food and Drug Administration only says hundreds were sickened. But while driving to ...

Yes, I'm still around; I just haven't had much time to blog lately. Our kids are just finishing up their second week of school already. Our routines should settle down soon, which hopefully will give me time to blog again. Brett Levy thejournalismshop...

These birds are in a 5-foot, near-dead tree right in front of Seth's classroom.

It's my mom's 70th bday and I'm on the floor of her suite sick as a dog. Headache, aches and fever. Missing family dinner now. Jeesh.

World's greatest exercise machine. Seth and Lael go the wrong way up the escalator.

Man, so much to do, so little time. The kids go back to school in just two weeks. Two weeks!Yikes.

I knew it would happen some day, and today was the day. Seth took his first first in the breast stroke. Yea Seth Brett Levy thejournalismshop.com dadalk.net

Good deed of the day: A woman slipped on ice cream (painted concrete floor) and started to fall on Lael and Seth who were eating ice cream. Instinctively, I grabbed the woman's arm -- the woman was walking between me where I was standing and the kids -...

Regardless where you stand on Arizona’s illegal immigrant bill, which puts pressure on police to identify and arrest suspected aliens, this state’s children will be the biggest losers when the law soon goes into affect. There are obvious reasons: Children face the risk of deportation along with parents. Or parents ...