Every year in January, February, and March I see fat people running around outside, playing basketball at the gym, and swimming at the community pool. However, by the time summer comes around, the only people out getting exercise are fit people. Why is that? Is it because the fat people became fit by exercising? [...]
Is your kid too young to start reading classics like The Iliad, but you want to introduce them anyway? That’s the position in which I find myself. Neil has been interested in ancient Rome for a while now, and we’ve done our fair share of research together. But, and this is a vital point about studying [...]
I woke up this morning intending to write something else, but I ran across an article from The Sun that I couldn’t resist. It’s about a toy that has taught a 3 year old girl to swear. It’s one of those teaching toys that’s supposed to teach the phonetic alphabet. Kids press a letter, [...]
The story of the Greek Gods is long and complicated. It started with Chaos which separated into Gaea, Uranus, Erebus and Nyx (fear of the dark is nyctophobia). Chaos and Gaea begot Oceanus, Ether, Aer (air), and the Nephelae (clouds). That’s the easy part. The rest is a little confusing. It goes something like this: [...]
It has happened to us repeatedly. One of the boys accumulates some money and decides to use it to buy a toy. We then spend 30 minutes looking around the Target toy isles to find the toy that’s just right. Then we buy it and take it home. In about the same time it takes to pick [...]
This bit of scientific news makes perfect sense: Paul A. Davis, a sports psychologist at the University of Wolverhampton in England and colleagues from Bangor University in Wales discovered that people who are more easily angered exert the most energy while working out. But, interestingly, angry people can not only workout harder, they also workout longer [...]
Sonnet #2 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed of small worth held. Then being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within [...]
We know, as adults, that reading can be both educational and fun. Over the years, I’ve discovered the subjects I want to learn and the books I want to read. I remember being a kid and reading, for example, The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne is not a favorite), [...]
1. Cinnamon is the most Christmas-y smell according to some scientists who had a burning desire to study it. Rose, by the way, is the smell most connected with summer. (NCBI read it here) 2. David Sedaris Talks About Christmas in the Netherlands 3. A Feel Good Dog [...]
Today we are taking a break from our regular coloring sheets series to wish you all a ”Merry Christmas“. As always, click over the image to get the printable PDF. Thank you for visiting. Enjoy! Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad Hoy nos tomamos descanso de nuestra serie de hojas para colorar para desearles a todos ustedes una [...]
Christmas is on Saturday. That means I’ve already wrapped the presents, and they’re ready to be placed under the tree. The boys got the things they wanted and Mely got what she wanted. I think I even got what I wanted. We’ve been having a good Christmas season, and the presents are going to [...]
