I don’t really mean to freak my readers out with the first two photos, but the New Jersey turnpike around Elizabeth, Newark and Linden is really what gives New Jersey a bad name. These don’t even show the worst of it, which we passed when I was driving my son to the bus stop for [...]

My kids like bagels. So we spend time going to bagel shops. If any of you grew up within 600 miles of New York City, you may know that New York is well known for its bagels. And bagels are often associated with folks of those parts as a “Jewish” food. Well, it may or [...]

      Ah, siblings. Sometimes they get along. Sometimes they squabble. Sometimes one helps the other out, like my Eldest Son did as he carried my daughter through the Old City of Jerusalem on our way to visit the Kotel. I really appreciated his offer to carry her. Anyone got a good sibling tale [...]

Another Photoshopped photo. I do hope these women don’t recognize themselves. I used so many different Photoshop tools: brush, clone stamp, palette knife, colored pencil filter, sponge, desaturate, paint daubs, magic wand.

Juggling Frogs, a blogger I have wanted to write about, has set up a new blog carnival: A Carnival of Overdue Thanks Who is being thanked? The “object” of the gratitude should be a person, or more than one person. Not an object, not an animal, and not an idea or fictional character. (Although, it’s [...]

What is the code in HTML for getting some text to appear in a link? How do you link text to a URL?