Ben's Journal

Growing up in the 1980's, the virus making headlines was HIV/AIDS. An audio book I recently listened to mentioned how early treatme...

From two recent at-dawn runs: Our heatwave continues with another crazy day: Knocking on the door of 100 in DC at 4p. At le...

It seems that nearly everything I know about the American Revolution is either incomplete or flat out wrong. Take militias. Yes, th...

You wouldn't think that an audio book on calculus would be a page turner, or whatever the audio equivallent of a page turner is. And ...

That's us picking blueberries for our 22nd wedding anniversary. In masks. Cause, you know, Covid. Here's before and af...

I love the seemingly endless ways to access and visualize Covid-19 data. Making sense of this data, however, is a different matter. That...

Imagine I get a request from a bank to program the function that calculates money earned from one of their accounts. This seems too easy...

Shira starts up the car and drives away. A few minutes into her drive she looks down to see this: That's a Mercedes A220 dashbo...

A project of mine called for a major DB re-org. The result was going to correct a number of longstanding system issues. It was also goin...

The other day, while strolling through our neighborhood, I came across large swath of greenery dotted with delightful flowers: My fi...

Picking music for your baby's bedtime is easy. Fire up Soma FM's Groove Salad and you've got the perfect environment to send...

Meet Ed the Eyed Elater . Ed is a handsome beetle with a passion for acrobatics (he can flip himself off his back, hurling himself four ...

I can't explain it: whenever I pick up big 'ol book on wilderness skills or survival I feel buzz of excitement. Perhaps it'...

I'm on a mission to get our 16 week old ready to tackle serious hikes. We've done the prep work and knocked out a short, but nearb...

To recap: I want to take our 16 week old for some serious hiking, but I realize we need to ease into this to avoid total parent and baby me...

My strategy for planning an outdoor adventure could be summed up in two words: Overdo It . You know, jump in the car and drive 3 hours aw...

I recently started a Capacitor based Ionic project . After years of working with Cordova, the framework initally felt jarring. However, w...

What feels like a lifetime ago, 10 year old J was visiting us and we had a few moments of downtime. I suggested we have some reading time ...

Far and away the fanciest furniture in our home belongs to our little one . Yet, his favorite resting spot continues to be our arms. And wh...

Years ago, as we prepared to take on our first Foster Placement, I read this book . One piece of advice from this text has stuck with me: ...

I've been mulling over what it means to celebrate Passover in a world wrestling COVID-19 . For one thing, it meant trading a raucous m...

Two weeks ago, the stars looked to be aligning: the weather was going to be top notch, and our day free. We could finally get in some quali...