Fraternal twins are/can be hereditary, but true identical (monozygotic) twins are still officially considered "cause unknown" . There are a few studies just coming out that seem to indicate that some me. May carry a certain enzyme in their sperm that can cause the egg to split under certain circumstances, in which…

to see this in real life, you have to go to the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio sometime.It's amazing to see all the twins, both young and old and the higher order multiples. We went once or twice with my younger sisters, who are identical twins, and will likely go this summer or next with my two new…

Good luck. We tried everywhere to avoid the van. And with the twins in rear facing mode my 6 year old son still has to crawl on his hands and knees to get under the 2nd row car seat to get back to the third row. Luckily once there he can buckle himself in because there is no way and adult could do it without removing…

we're with you on the forced mini-van upgrade due to twins thing too! And holy crap, a fully loaded Honda Odysseus was Fifty Grand. Fifty Grand....are you kidding my. Kia it is. Girls will be 5 months here in a few days.

Ah yes, just like at the Last Supper when Jesus gathered his apostles around him and said "This is my Body, I give it up for you , well, that is you unless you were baptized something other than Catholic, don't attend church every week, skipped your last confession, don't have a 100% spot free conscience, or you…

Another parent of young twins here. My girls are four months old. Thankfully, my wife and I have flexible enough work schedules that we each get to be a stay at home parent a few days a week. The dilemma comes around 3pm. Our son is 6 and it required that parents show I'D to get their kindergarteners off the school…

Actually, at least in Kentucky (not exactly a progressive state, mind you) Boy Scout leaders and Sunday School teachers (episcopal, anyway) do undergo background checks and a pretty intense training before they can work with minors. Heck, as a 15-year old Boy Scout summer camp counsellor, despite being a minor myself…

It's still tradition in my wife's family that they bury their own. Of course, this is at a family burial ground out on the eastern slope of a mountain, not your local cemetary. If winter they build a charcoal fire to thaw the ground and will dig the whole the day before. As an in-law I'm not exactly invited, but…

Oh I wish that I could be, oh I wish that I could be Richard Cory.

the plastic wrap is more than just a draft stopper (and to be honest, if you have a draft rope caulk will do more than the plastic). Think of it as the poor person's dual-panes windows. The plastic helps reduce radiant heat loss through the glass. No more cold feeling when you walk by the window.

My brine recipe:

I'm beginning more and more to wonder whether the type of person who would just overlook this sort of thing, much less actively cover it up is somehow naturally attracted to or successful in positions of power and influence, or if it is the power and influence that itself somehow corrupts perfectly normal people…

Newborn twins, not on any semblance of a schedule yet, so all we really got was an hour of prolonged half-sleep. Of course they were down for the count pretty solidly by 5am, unfortunate since my 6 year old has to be up by 6am to get ready for school. I did appreciate the extra light at the bus stop, however. At…

I'm as annoyed by evangelical atheists as I am by evangelical Christians (or really extremists of any group or ideology). Both groups are extremely close-minded in their beliefs and seem to adopt the same tactics of mocking, harassing or shunning those they disagree with. Lately however I've been particularly…

Hmm, I have lived in (or very near) four of these places. I think that means i get yo yell "Bingo" now, right? (Oh, and that would be Corbin, Prestonsburg, Rome and Ripley).

I seduced my wife with omelets after a night out and making the bed the next morning. The omelets trick was tried and true for me by that point, but the bed making was a moment of genius that really paid off. And I will say that my mother never allowed me in the kitchen, and yet I've turned out a far better cook than…

I always figured that the anguish in Gethsemane was as much the human "I'm going to die," as the divine "I'm going to die and for the next thousands of years people are going to do all of these awful things in my name.... completely missing the point of my dying. Maybe I should just go back to being a carpenter."

Although I fully support the reintroduction of these eagles, it's not a completely far-fetched complaint, even if a bit misguided. After all, the fish these animals prey an can get pretty large. Other species of eagles will occasionally take fairly large animals: baboons, lion cubs, young lambs and other small…

You're right. I was typing faster than I was thinking about it. I disagree about it being hard to find, however. You just have to do like I do and marry into a good supply. That said, I've seen in anywhere from bourbon colored to nearly clear. I suppose it depends on how clear the cider was to begin with and whether…

Not sure without seeing the model, but chance are very good that you can just buy an external hard drive enclosure. That is basically to say the case that the hard drive sits in. Usually there's a half a dozen screws to remove and inside is just a plain as peanut butter commodity notebook hard drive. Pop the drive out…