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By Keith Wilcox
 
The mall was organized chaos.  There were no signs saying walk on the right, but people, for the most part, walked on the right.  Every so often there would be a guy, usually a guy, who bucked the trend and walked against the flow.  The flow was ambivalent; it treated the man like blood treats artery plaque; it went around.  These occasional obstructions added to the chaos and caused the otherwise orderly procession of people to, at times, log jam.  Some people moved out[…]

 
  
I hear it all the time.  The first thing people ask me when I tell them I homeschool my kids is, “Well, what about social interaction?”  There is clearly a perception that homeschooled kids are ill adjusted compared to their publicly schooled counterparts.  Frankly, anybody who suggests that my kids are socially awkward, or will become socially awkward, doesn’t know them and doesn’t know me.  There is no question in my mind that I’m doing the right thing by them, both educationally and socially.  I[…]

I spent 75 bucks buying school supplies for my two kids this year.  I knew my total expenses were lower than what most parents of public schooled kids spend.  My method for figuring out that I pay less is not exactly scientific.  What I did was post what I spent on my facebook page with some snarky comment about how I thought I got ripped off.  Then I got replies saying that, in fact, I had made out like a bandit.  “Hmmm,” I said to myself.  ”This[…]

  
Being a stay at home dad means I do things differently, in many ways, than my wife would chose to do them.  That means my kids will have a different, but not better, experience being with me all the time than they would with my wife.  These differences manifest themselves in all sorts of ways.  Everyday chores get done differently and their education is centered around my world view rather than that of their mother.  I can’t think and act like a mother any more than[…]

  
I‘m not a cat person.  I don’t dislike them; I just love dogs.  Yesterday we went to an open air mall to walk around and grab a coffee.  Parked outside the coffee shop was the Boulder Humane Society‘s mobile pet adoption truck.  Standing outside the truck on the curb were three adoptable dogs.  Being the sucker for a lonely looking dog that I am I stopped to pet them.  That was a big mistake.  I had my boys with me and they instantly wanted a[…]