I spent yesterday at my niece’s graduation here in Albany NY. It was my sister’s youngest daughter graduating, and the third graduation here in four years. I have been to what seems like a lot of high school and college graduations the last few years. There has been a steady stream of family graduations as […]
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Kobe’s supporting cast
I remember when Kobe Bryant used to call the other people on his team his supporting cast. I remember him talking after games about how his teammates needed to step up. I was thinking about this a lot last night as I watched game 7 of the NBA World Championships. Kobe Bryant played horribly for […]
Mint
About a year or so ago I moved all of our personal finances to Mint.com and away from Quicken. I did it because I liked how dead simple it was, and because of the fact that it made integrating with all of my financial institutions a breeze. Oh, and I didn’t have to worry about […]
Why I hate the Republican party
In case you have not seen it, there was video released over the weekend of a Congressman from North Carolina collaring a couple of college punks that were trying to bait him into some kind of reaction. You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqIP9yagkQ Now, I am no fan of Bob Etheridge or his politics, […]
More And Less List Update
At the beginning of this year, I put together a list of things that I was looking to change this year. I called it my ‘More And Less List’ because each element had an element of doing more of something, and less of something else. I am half way through the year, and so I […]
1775 – Education Was Horked
An excerpt from a book I am reading: “Education, like so much else, was a casualty of troubled times. There was no time for extensive study… Literacy dwindled, and with it the quality of civil servants. Faced with unrelenting pressures… and social chaos,fields such as philosophy and literature were largely ignored as luxuries of a […]
Why We Should Care About The World Cup
If you are like me, you have at best a passing interest in the World Cup starting this weekend. Soccer, in spite of it’s massive participation by young kids, has never had the kind of acceptance or interest of the other major sports we follow here in the U.S. Whether it’s the Super Bowl or […]
Firrel in the fireplace
It was these four seemingly non-sensical words that set off one of the great events in the history of our house. When our son was growing up, he could not pronounce his ‘sp’ or ‘sq’ sounds at all, and instead substituted the ‘f’ sound for each of them. So, Sprite became Frite, spoon became foon, […]
Burying It In The Ground
There is a story in the Bible about the use of what has been given to you called the Parable of the Talents. In the well-known story, a master goes away and leaves his three servants with differing amounts of money. To one of the servants he leaves five talents, to another two, and to […]
Should We Run Schools Like A Business? – Education Is Horked, Part 6
This is Part 6 in my continuing series, Education Is Horked. Previously I wrote about my thesis on the state of US education, The Myth Of The Career, Questioning Everything, and The Return of Craftmanship, and Why We Homeschool. It is my hope to get people thinking about the tectonic shift happening under our feet […]