I wrote a guest article for raleighdaddy today. The topic is SEO advice for new bloggers. I am pretty new to blogging myself, but I have had the good fortune to know other people who have been nice enough to help me along the way and to give me good advice. In turn, I’d [...]
Several months ago I wanted to start teaching my kids to spell. They know how to write, and they know how to read, but their spelling was pretty awful. I decided to start picking out random categories of words to teach them to read. For example, one day they would spell the days of the [...]
Saturday Afternoon By Keith Wilcox John was going through his typical pre-race warm-up routine. It consisted of standing around talking to his friends who had come to watch him win – again. Cross Country had become a big deal at his school since John came to campus. The sport had been a quixotic [...]
I wrote an article several months ago where I talked extensively about the health benefits of milk. I researched various brands and explored the merits of organic vs. conventional milks. When I was a kid our family got milk from a dairy farm close to home. I remember going to the farm every week [...]
My boys and I tried carving our pumpkins for the first time last year. Previously we had just painted them. I’m sorry to say that I’m not a very good instructor and our pumpkins came out looking extremely normal. I gave up on trying to create artistic pumpkin carvings a long time ago. My Jack [...]
Originally Halloween featured carved out turnips that were meant to scare away a spirit by the name of Stingy Jack who was not allowed into Heaven because he was a shifty bastard. The Devil wouldn’t let him into hell either for the same reason. His spirit was forced to wander around for eternity with nothing [...]
Well, it did snow a few inches yesterday, and that was a good enough excuse to get outside and try out the sleds for the first time this year. I spent 7 years of my childhood living in New Hampshire, skiing all the time and sledding around the neighborhood. I’ve tried every kind of [...]
Life Saving – as in your own life. Earle Liederman wrote a book entitled Endurance, back in 1926, in which he proclaimed the exercises that each man should be able to perform in order to save his own life. I became aware of this historical oddity of a book through the popular website, The [...]
I was recently made aware of the American Girl line of dolls from Mattel Toys by a blogging friend of mine, at Clark Kent’s Lunchbox. I’m woefully behind the times apparently because these dolls seem to be a pretty big deal. There is a controversy brewing over one of their most recent creations, a doll [...]
This Story is part of an ongoing series that I thought of recently. It is just a part of a bigger piece which I have started to put together in the last few weeks. The Story By Keith Wilcox Andrew climbed into bed at his dad’s request even though he really wasn’t [...]
Last week I put out a request for suggestions concerning my new logo. To encourage more participation I said I would randomly select someone (actually my 6 year old picked at random) to win a 24 pack of Pirate’s Booty cheesy poof snacks. Well, my boy has selected Big Little Wolf of Big [...]
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