Every night we put Mia to bed she has a list of items she needs to do to prolong the staying up and to put off the laying down. These things include: getting a drink, taking her vitamins, turning on the light, changing the hall lightbulb, tucking her in, laying down with her, and [...]

Today brings us a guest post from my good friend Nick Long who hails from the great state of Texas.
#10 Gremlins (1984)
This was most likely my first and most traumatizing movie theater experience. My unsuspecting parents were fooled by the PG rating and images of a cute, cuddly ‘mogwai’ - they weren’t alone. As a [...]

I’ve updated this post and moved it to my new Wordpress Magazine, Pressing Pixels.

I’ve updated this post and moved it to my new Wordpress Magazine, Pressing Pixels.

We had some family pictures taken on Saturday by my good friend Jacob Heisterkamp. Here are a few previews.

This post actually started out as a comment response to a blog post but ended up being way too long…
Concerning the recent debacle about Southwestern Seminary offering a homemaking course, the website The View From Her had some interesting things to say. (I found this particular post from my friend Becky Vartabedian on her [...]

Why do candy companies screw around with perfectly good candy? Was there a problem with just normal Peanut Butter Twix? Was the cookie contingent feeling so left out you had to throw them a bone?
And speaking of my favorite Peanut Butter candies - how in the world did PB Max not make it? [...]

There are a lot of hobbies I wish I had more time for: guitar, cooking (no, really), and photography. And since I have one of the world’s most beautiful daughters photography is something I would really like to be good at. As life goes however everybody gets lucky. And in my case [...]

Fresh is good. Fresh is fun. Fresh is clean. Fresh is re-freshing. I like fresh.
And so I bring you, my family, friends, and internet companions, a new and fresh joshbyers.com.
Enjoy it, read it, savor it.
Fresh is good. Because you’ll never hear anybody say - “Man, [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote about the new social networking site called Virb. I still think it’s the best social site in terms of what it allows the individual to do with their pages. You have full control over the CSS and even the html (which is rare and cool). This [...]