How to Make Brazilian-Style White Rice

Having grown up in Bolivia and Brazil, I don't think of making rice as a challenge because we made it pretty much twice a day every day (and sometimes three times a day if we were making sweet rice for breakfast). But I hear that not everyone knows how to make simple,...

How to Remove Water Stain on Wood

See this ugly white water stain on our piano bench? The bench (and piano) aren't even ours, which makes the stain even uglier. I intended to sand it down and refinish it before the owners claimed it back, but today that plan got replaced by a much easier way to remove...

How to Move an iTunes Library – Video Tutorial

Right now I am so stinking mad at iTunes that the last thing I want to do is write a tutorial on how to move an entire library of music from one computer to another and make the music PLAY. But since I learned it's a couple simple steps to make iTunes play your moved...

Harmless Pet Snake

Here is a quick toy snake you and your child can make on a rainy day. It took me and this 5-year-old child half an hour to felt and film the making of these colorful snakes. There is nothing much to this craft: take a piece of bike chain (see How to Take Apart a Bike...