I think I just realized why there was a women’s liberation movement. The following list is an article that appeared in 1943 concerning the hiring of women employees. This was during the Second World War, when a lot of women were entering the work force because of a manpower (in the literal sense) shortage [...]
Most parents are like me. If there’s some mitigating, exciting circumstance, we let out kids stay up late to experience it. Last night, for instance, we had a total lunar eclipse that I let the boys stay up to watch. It happens that this eclipse occurred on the winter solstice, which hasn’t happened in [...]
Almost everything we know about Christmas today, the physical trappings of the holiday, is a mish mash of various pagan cultural traditions, the tree, gift giving/Santa Clause, mistletoe, the feast, Yule log, etc… . But Christianity is also, obviously, present as well. The Christian tradition gives us the star on the tree and the celebration of [...]
Cheap Trinkets That Look Like They’re Not Okay, most gumball machines spit out worthless crap. But, have you seen the quarter machines that dispense these cute, colorful rings? My mom has! In fact, she makes a point to stop at one whenever she, the machine, and a quarter are in the same place at [...]
I got my hands on a Tassimo T20 single serve coffee machine this week (from the marketing company in charge of social media and blog outreach for Bosch and Tassimo), and I’m here to review it and give one away to one of my readers. It’s my job to give this machine an honest review, [...]
Continuing with our series of State Birds & Flowers today we have California, Colorado, Connecticut and Delaware. As always, click over the image to get the PDF printable version. Leave us your requests under the comments section and visit our previous coloring sheets here. Thank you for visiting! California Quail & California Poppy [...]
Best is a subjective term. Obviously there are thousands of great albums that I’ve never heard which other people would think are the best. But, in the last 30 days I’ve driven a little over 6,000 miles with my wife and two boys, and I’ve listened to quite a few albums. With kids in [...]
Muscles don’t grow when you lift weights. In fact, muscles get broken when you lift weights. The point at which muscles do their growing is during rest. The same holds true for academic work. Have you ever studied hard at a subject only to get frustrated by your progress because more work isn’t producing [...]
There’s a short article in Women’s Day magazine this month about safer sledding. I said to myself, as I sat down to read it, “This is probably going to be one of those articles containing information that everybody should already know if they aren’t completely stupid.” That’s exactly the sort of article it is. But, [...]
You aren’t like me, and I’m not like you. Different things motivate us, and neither you nor I will find the same things personally rewarding. But, for sure, something motivates you, something stokes your passion, and there’s something you’ve been dreaming of doing and haven’t done yet. It’s hard, at least for me, and I [...]
I started this blog on May 26, 2009 with the hopes of using it to make money and reach lots of people. But, as with so many things in life, I wound up learning more myself than I imparted to others, and my goals became less clear. I went from a naive vision of [...]
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