On the first Saturday of each month, Home Depot offers a building workshop for kids. The projects are not complicated, as in some sanding, hammering of pegs, glueing, and attaching stickers. Usually they are centered around something going on within that month; Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Superbowl Sunday, etc. Our kids are still young and need one of us to help them with each step, but I can...

As a child, my dad had a canned response to my complaints of boredom. Its a Yiddish phrase that, roughly translated, meant go fly a kite. More literally translated, I believe it meant go hit your head against the wall, but that’s my dad’s sense of humor. Anyway, as it turns out flying a kite can be a whole lot of fun, particularly if you were at the Berkeley Marina this weekend for the Kite Festival. When...

Now that we have returned from Camp Sacramento, I wanted to follow up with some thoughts and pictures, should you be considering this place for your family. And by the way, I highly suggest it at least once! Pictured below was our cabin. This was our first year in cabin 2. The beds and mattreses seemed newer than I remember others being. Maybe it has more updated furniture than the other cabins, or maybe...

Now I do enjoy camping as much as the next city slicker… but let’s face it, there’s a whole lot of work involved. Take, for example, all the stuff. You’ve got to bring cool clothes because its summer and warm clothes because it gets chilly at night. Then you need to pack up all the food for your stay, the utensils AND a stove. Next, you need to bring some entertainment. Though my 4 and...

The Yolo Basin Foundation has a bat walk and talk series. On ten separate evenings between the end of May and beginning of September, they offer the Bat Walk and Talk. A slideshow presentation begins the evening. A bat specialist offers interesting information on the different species of bats as well as some bat myths and truisms. For example, did you know the bat is more closely related to a cow than it...