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 [...]
My boys are 7 and 6, and that means we are years removed from having to worry about diapers. However, I remember the cost and hassle of buying and running out of them. Most parents use disposable diapers because they’re hassle free; we used them for that reason too. I never even considered going the [...]
A friend of mine sent me an iPod Touch for my birthday last week. Do you know what I’ve done with it so far? I added a song to it (yes, just one – and it’s a Dolly Parton song at that), used it to time 55 minutes on a spatchcocked chicken (spatchcock is indeed [...]
Coffee isn’t really my thing. I drink one cup per day at the most and sometimes just 2 or 3 per week. I’m the wrong guy to ask when it comes to the subtle textures and aromas of coffee. I do however know what good coffee tastes like and what bad coffee tastes like. Most [...]
I bought myself a Kindle a while ago and it’s been a fantastic, if not completely necessary, investment for me. “Why?” you ask? Well, simply put, because I’m not the sort of person who cares for having books lying around that I never look at again after they’re read. Furthermore, I do a lot [...]
I don’t do book reviews. I read books. I either like them or I don’t and I don’t have the energy to over analyze them. Writing is art and if you think about it too much the magic disappears. I read a book last week called The Road by, Cormac McCarthy. The book was [...]
This story has a happy ending. Read the update at the bottom for the conclusion. The recall was one thing. I could deal with that because Toyota behaved professionally. However, this week has been a different story as the service department at my Toyota dealership has decided to show themselves for the stereotype [...]
