My son, Neil, plays tennis. His dream is to go pro someday—something he’s talked about since he was a toddler. But, tennis can be quite expensive, and we aren’t rich. How, I thought, would I get him involved? One role of good parents is to encourage their kids and make financial sacrifice where possible (Bye [...]
The owner of Rocky Mountain Racquet Specialists is probably a skilled racquet technician. But, I wouldn’t personally know because he’s never actually helped me with any of my tennis related questions or needs. After three uncomfortable experiences, I’ve had enough. It’s been 20 years since I played Tennis. I don’t know what’s going on in [...]
Update: Panera corporate finally responded by sending me a 20 dollar gift card and a canned e-mail. I have had a number of awesome replies on this blog from managers of other Panera restaurants from around the country, and I’m impressed with their professionalism. It seems everybody read this article except the people who really should have read it, the [...]
There’s nothing like a board game to bring a family together. Television is brain numbing, video games force everybody to look in the same direction (not at each other), and books are an individual pleasure. Until video games become holographic, board games will rule the landscape of rainy day/night time family entertainment. You probably [...]
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, [...]
The Every Man Should Know series of books includes Jokes Every Man Should Know, Dirty Jokes Every Man Should Know, and Stuff Every Man Should Know. I own the two joke books of the series, and I’d highly recommend them both (Good jokes are something no man should be without). Yesterday I received a copy [...]
Up to now I’ve refrained from writing any sort of review on P90X. The fact is that so few people actually finish the complete program that I didn’t want to give it glowing reviews just to see people spend all that money and then leave the DVD’s to gather dust. But perhaps I haven’t given my fellow [...]
Mothers and daughters love American Girl Dolls. I know they do because I’ve heard rave reviews about them from parents and heard confirmation of it from little girls. I wrote a critical post about a year ago about a particular American Doll character that had what was, in my opinion, a terribly sexist back story. I still [...]
Poetry, for me, isn’t something I go out of my way to read. It’s enigmatic where I prefer bluntness – prose. I don’t like to guess at the meaning of phrases. My favorite author is Ernest Hemingway whose writing is famously direct. However, my resistance to it notwithstanding, poetry is something with which we should [...]
Math doesn’t have to be daily lessons of worksheets, word problems, and scratch paper. Math can be fun. Yes, I know that sounds like a third grade teacher desperately trying to convince her students that they aren’t in a math class. The truth is though that Greg Tang has written a series of children’s [...]
This photo shows the Saxon math student workbook (first half of grade 2) stacked on top of the teacher’s guide for the whole year compared to both the student textbook and workbook for Singapore math 2A. You can see, in visual format, just how different they are. I have finally found a math curriculum my boys [...]
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