Joe Beernink

Yesterday was the release date for Marissa Meyer’s book Scarlet, the second book in her Lunar Chronicles, following on her fantastic book, Cinder. She kicked off her book tour at the...

…is getting new glasses. The Old Me has on frames I bought probably ten years ago. The lenses have been updated a few times, but I decided this time it made...

When you have twins, sometime you get twice the sugar. And oh yeah, the time…it just flies.

Not much going on this weekend, but we did have a beautiful sunset. So I thought I’d share.

Every Christmas, we get a family photo done for a holiday card. I know it’s a cheesy, typical thing that everyone does. A few years ago, we started having our pictures...

It was quite the battle, but I think the candy won.

Apparently, the weather on the west coast is jealous of all the attention Sandy is generating for the east coast. It’s decided to drop a few million gallons from the skies...

Yesterday, my kids’ class took a trip to a pumpkin patch. My mom (who is in town for a few days) and I, tagged along. I couldn’t walk very far, but...

Fall is my favorite season for many reasons—one of which is the tree in our backyard turns a lovely shade of red. And on a completely different arboreal note, last winter,...

Every fall, we have a family cider-fest out at my father-in-law’s orchard in Eastern Washington. This year, our two day total press was somewhere around 60 gallons. We also made vats...