You don't have to get snotty.

READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED, unless you are or have been a parent of a toddler.

This may sound a little gross, which is why I have added the warning above, but as a parent I'm hoping you all can relate.

After we announced that we'd be starting to require registration on the site to comment, many in the community immediately accused us of censorship.

This is not one of those blogs where you are supposed to take me literally. I could just see large soggy boxes with nothing but a top hat, three pieces of coal, a carrot and a corn cob pipe waiting for me in the lobby at the Register.

I took advantage of Friday's warm weather by taking my two boys for a walk around town. We were walking down Central Avenue when I heard a crunch.

It is a truism that people overestimate what can happen in two years and underestimate what can happen in five. When you think about the web, it's really remarkable what's happened to it in the last five years. Facebook was a month old in March of 2004.

I used to cringe when a black cat would cross my path and think "Oh no, seven more years of bad luck." But after all of those years totaled triple digits (a lot of cats run across the street while I am driving to assignments in a given day) I stopped cringing.

I remember when I was going to night school in 1998 to earn my graduate certificate in gerontology the professors were teaching students that, "Today's senior citizen population is the wealthiest and the healthiest older population our country has ever seen." (The professors were referring to tho

Are you a retiree and receiving Social Security/Railroad Retirement or Veterans benefits and afraid to apply for the Economic Stimulus Payment?

You've heard the old saying, "You don't know whatcha got 'til it's gone."

Who would have thought that someone would want to find a way to financially exploit the ballooning demographic of people ages 65 to 85?  Well, they have, and it’s very creepy.