Order from Chaos

Today is the day that I will always associate with going back to school.  In New York, you always started the Wednesday after Labor Day.  In...

With LBA starting third grade this week (3rd grade!) and SoBA joining him at the same school in kindergarten, here's a list of items th...

My grandmother was French and there was a lot of french cuisine growing up.  One thing that made appearances for special occasions was her c...

I usually have several recipes ready to go (they're the easiest posts to write, of course), and I do have several lined up for the next...

"HERE IT COMES!  TELEVISION'S MOST EXCITING HOUR OF CASH AND PRIZES!  IT'S THE 60 MINUTE PRICE IS RIGHT!" When I would s...

Today is evidently the first National Girl Scout Cookie Day .  To celebrate, BuzzFeed posted a list of Girl Scout items that are available ...

Christmas Eve in the Brave Astronaut home growing up always involved one of the rare occasions when my father would make homemade potato chi...

Which at the Brave Astronaut launchpad means pizza / movie night for LBA and SoBA.  However, growing up on Long Island, it often meant a nig...

Growing up, a popular dish with my mother was Mac and Cheese with hot dogs. It was delish. This recipe (from the Amateur Gourmet) is very...

This one's for my friend Gary, who turned me on to garlic knots years ago when we got some at Village Heroes . When we travel to NY and...

One of the more popular books in the rotation for LBA and SoBA is called Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type . It occurs to me that while rea...

The Brave Astronaut clan are staying home for the holidays. Many of you are aware of the troublesome trip we had while going to visit with ...

We recently became a one-car family. The car that I bought a few years ago, a 1998 Volvo, finally got to the point where the amount of mone...

I noted with some sadness the other day that Friendly's, one of the greatest places of my youth is in trouble . The article notes that ...

I have been keeping tabs on the men (and women) of Sterling Cooper through Netflix streaming (I've actually been watching the first seas...

I grew up on Long Island, in a predominantly Jewish area. At Christmas time, our Christmas lights were often in the minority after the fami...

Last week the DC area enjoyed some very springlike, almost summer-like, temperatures. The mercury rose above 70 degrees for three days in a...

Damn it's cold. For being in the snow hole right now, it is downright frigid out tonight. I am in the camp that if we are going to ha...

[second in a series] Yes, I know it's winter. Last week I started a series about snow. The first post was about my public school days...

[first in a series] So yesterday the DC region braced itself for impact. In the end, we got a little push from Mother Nature, but nothing l...