Since the Pirates have played just over 1/3 of their games this season, it's a good time to check in with our family's win predictio...

Since I wondered what the empty nest was like before we arrived at one, I thought I would share some field observations.  On the first Sunda...

Your correspondent failed to update after the family's initial predictions last year.  The Pirates won 76 games for the second year in a...

To conclude this year's reviews, I continue my cheating by awarding not one but two books of the year.  Unlike last year's undispute...

Despite efforts to maintain a balanced diet of fiction and non-fiction this year, the vagaries of library availability offered up more of th...

I'm making up new categories for Books of the Year this year, and it feels like cheating.  Having already touted memoir and history, I...

I always like to share books that I disliked so that other readers might be spared a bad experience.  This year, I disliked more than one bo...