"One. Two. Three. Four. I declare a mouse war!" My four children--the two oldest with their significant others--stared at me, as they so often do, as though trying to discern if this was finally the ...

As some of you know, I had a mouse event last month. While sitting in my bedroom, I saw a medium-size, dark brown thing run in and then back out. What followed was a binge of buying mouse abatement ...