That house is amazing! There are stairways that go to blank walls. It's hard to explain. I guess you just have to experience it.

I do the LA Times puzzle every day, and take the Sunday edition of the local paper just because it has the NY Times puzzle. I hate to say this, but for the last several months anyway, the LA Times Sunday puzzle has been more challenging than the NY Times Sunday puzzle.

My ex-mother-in-law thought Cool Whip was the greatest invention of modern times. I can't even stand real whipped cream as a result.

There's a killer clown running for president, too.

So what do kids eat now? And why weren't there any PB&Js?

How marvelous to watch Maru investigate, test, and learn something entirely new!

My mother was a hypochondriac, and my father traveled a lot, so I was on my own most of the time. I rode all over on my bike when I was 9, and when we moved to Milwaukee a year later, I took city buses. I rowed all over a lake by myself when I was 8. I survived it all just fine. Of course, I didn't let my kids do those things, because I wanted them to know I cared about them. But I would probably be considered a lousy mother these days, because they did have more freedom than seems to be permissible nowadays.

We had a cat who could circumvent any cover we put on the fish tank. He kept pulling out the large goldfish, but the dog would bark to let us know in time to save the fish.

Doing the right thing by his employees has certainly rewarded him many times over. Look at the way his business is thriving! Happy employees are the best. Somehow I doubt that all the tycoons who take home millions will get the picture, though.

I certainly don't think so!

Beautiful voice!

What an idiot!

I could strangle the perpetrators of the plastic water bottles. The bottles are a huge waste of materials, the contents a totally unnecessary use of a valuable resource, and the empty bottles cause all kinds of environmental problems.

I love the idea, but I couldn't live with Trump's face in my house, even with animals scratching it or peeing on it.

What a great article! The author really pulls the reader into the experience.