We had a not-great but pretty laughable experience with two couches delivered from the Burbank IKEA. The sectional was intended for our (downstairs) living room, while the loveseat was to go upsta...

There are also some good sci-fi novels for kids in this age group. Cory Doctorow's _Little Brother_ is an excellent book for a fifth/sixth grader, depending on your friend's parenting style (there...

My son is four now, and for the past year one of his solid favorites has been Rikki Tikki Tavi, the Rudyard Kipling story about the mongoose who protects an English family's garden in India. We ha...

beef stew, chile, ribs, i can think of about a million other things!

These are adorable! One caveat: they are very difficult to hang in any permanent way. I know from experience.

So... has anyone used the hot water lobster that redneckmodern mentioned?

I have a weird combination of affectionate and annoyed feelings about this poster. But the kicker is, I read all the detail photos they offered, and ... DAH DAH DAH! There's a typo (the infamous ...

I've wondered about this kind of signal system, but in L.A., it probably would lead to a rear-ender or a gunshot wound.

Frech???

"Boldy"? "Oroginal"?

Isn't the store called Xcape?

Please, everybody, the typos are killing me!!!!! "Paul Ryding expresses his thought on WAY and the military in his works"? "IT'S silver lining"? I'm afraid I'm being obnoxious, but please, pleas...

I can't keep quiet any longer, since I've noticed several of these on AT sites in the last two days.... "it's fun, bubbly associations" -- unless you meant "it IS", you don't need the possessive f...

While trying to maneuver my toddler, his lunchbox, my laptop, purse, and keys into the car one morning, I dropped my cell phone into a travel cup full of strawberry smoothie.

I like to marinade and then pan-sear or grill. Or we grill it with salt and pepper and butter to finish. It's great reading everyone else's suggestions, and we've tried a lot of them. If we win ...

ctrl-v = paste. What a time-saver, in combination w/ ctrl-c and ctrl-x.

The only reason I feel guilty about going to the library rather than buying books is that I like to support authors. If everyone used the library, how would writers sell books to support themselves?

Almost everyone on Amazon who bought one hates it, as you have to keep pushing the garlic into it with your fingers.

Pet hair! Aaaarrrggghhh!

I'd put it in my son's room; he'd love to have a comfy place to sit and read.