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Our school’s once-a-year celebration of diversity is this Friday and I’m feeling a bit left out. We have belly dancers, a Multicultural Choir (which seems to avoid the “Multi-”), and some quality teacher lip-syncing. Sadly—and I’m partly responsible for this, since I didn’t appear for a tryout—there’s nothing to celebrate my English and Welsh heritage.
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So one thing I’m not real cool with is small kids cussing. I don’t have a problem with foul language—in the right hands it can be a bit of an art form—but I’m really picky with my kids (both my real kids at home and my “kids” at school). Maybe it’s from this weird 1979 [...]

Yep, it’s the  last true day of summer vacation. I can’t complain. It was easily the best summer of my life. I’m the luckiest guy in the world if I can say that each August! And nothing encapsulates my summer like a little Spongebob. Click below.
SpongeBob SquarePants – The Best Day Ever

Here’s what we do for fun in Boone County, Missouri! We watch the pig races at the Boone County Fair. Notice the excellent cheerleader with the yellow pom-pons. Her yellow pig, who goes by the stage name “Rush Limhog,” won the race. The reward for winning the race? One Oreo cookie.

One benefit of having kids is the opportunity to revisit games from the past. Many of these were amazingly mindless—especially when the kids were really little—but sometimes you can be surprised. So it was when Sam chose to purchase Mouse Trap with a birthday gift card.
Now I don’t remember actually playing this game as a [...]

New pictures of Orlando HERE.

I read an interesting study on children and happiness (that I’ve probably mentioned before) that claimed children make people less happy unless you constantly reflect on how happy they make you. It makes sense. It’s like friendship or marriage. If you dwell on the negatives and annoyances and the way they get in the way [...]

What to say after my return from the family’s first pilgrimage to Orlando? I want to rip on Mickey Mouse—to be the hypercritical parent who refuses to allow his kids to choose Toy Story as the theme for a birthday party—but I don’t have it in me. Disney is what it is, both the theme [...]

So it’s one of those weeks when life just won’t let up. Not in a tragic way—I get that living in Sudan is a true “life just won’t let up” life—but in a way that wears me slick. National Honor Society graduation, Mother’s Day, work on the house, party for my intern’s last day, grocery [...]