BREATH OF FRESH AIR : Increasingly, it has felt like the walls are closing in around us as the COVID era persists, especially as the days ar...

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: Today, we spent a fair amount couple of time  working on a video about CJ's involvement with nonprofits that fig...

THANKFUL: We at MPA hope everyone had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.  We had a cooperative holiday - we divvied up the cooking to do lis...

HOLIDAY WONDERMENT: We've been marveling over how beautiful our 'Christmas' cactus has become this week. We thought it an early ...

BAKERS AND MAKERS: Another birthday in our household this past week (Christian), so we baked a cake - and donated it to one of our favorite ...

EXPERIMENTAL:  We've got another Birthday Dreams cake coming up. It's one we just *had* to sign up for - a science (!) themed cake f...

NASA astronaut   Kate Rubins  of NASA, peers into the SpaceX  Crew-1 capsule from the ISS. Photo: Me, via NASA TV ON STATION: Last night, w...