It looked better before some kids smashed the top. Seth has been taking Flat Stanley around for a friend. Brett Levy thejournalismshop.com dadalk.net

While officially four million more Americans – many of them children – found themselves in poverty from 2008 to 2009, the number is probably higher. The official total number of Americans in poverty is now 44 million, reports The New York Times. That 1-in-7 Americans are poor number is based ...

We left for school early so Lael could get some quality playground time. As we’re walking, we spot a friend of Lael’s up ahead. The kids decide to run after her. In less than a minute, Seth trips on the hard concrete sidewalk and immediately starts crying. Even before I ...

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.