Oliver DeMille

Oliver DeMille has started a great movement and brought into the light a great method of education. Oliver DeMille is the author of a book called A Thomas Jefferson Education. I had a wonderful opportunity over the weekend to listen to Oliver DeMille at the Annual Thomas Jefferson Education forum last Saturday. [...]

Kids are Great

There never seems to be a bottom to the humor and fun that comes from the minds of my kids.
They just have a new and honest view of so many things and do a great job of reminding me when what I am saying makes no sense at all or when I need to simplify [...]

New Business Opportunities

For the entrepreneurial minded it can be very tough to think about new ideas and then to implement them.
When you get thinking and using the creative part of your mind all sorts of possibilities and business ideas begin to open up to you and then the confusion and chaos begin.
For example, I typically have about [...]

Helping Friends

So, I like working from home because of the flexibility of schedule to take care of things that come up.  Like a broken water main.
This wasn’t at my house.  It was at my friend’s house a couple of streets over, yesterday.  He is a close friend of mine and not having water to the house [...]

An old note.

I was cleaning and organizing and came across a card I have not read in many years.
Now, for your reading pleasure is a verbatim transcript of the card.  (We’ll see how good I am at typing, gramatical errors in the original, no I don’t know who the author is.)
The Parable of the Popper
Behold at the [...]

More Kids Stuff

Sometimes I forget how awesome my kids are, then they say things that make you think.
The other day I was making my meal replacement shake and was running the blender on high (for the extra smoothness of course).  My five year old had to tell me what it sounds like.
“The blender sounds like an elephant [...]

Getting Started

So many people think and talk about getting going on their big dream or goal.  We like to think and dream and wish and talk about doing things differently but then that is where it ends.
Some of the most tragic words are if only, it might have been, someday I’ll be . . . . [...]

Who’s Scrooge?

This blog tends to lean away from political matters, mostly because this is not about politics.
A letter to the editor in my local paper the other day made an interesting, but unfair claim.  The letter writer claimed that Scrooge was a Conservative and only became a “decent human being” when he became a liberal.
Poppycock.  That [...]

Kids at Home

So I work from home.
It has its own challenges and rewards.  I am a very happily married man with five kids.
They are 9, 7, 5, 3, and almost one year old.  It is tough to work from home with this environment, but I manage OK.
When all the kids are home, it makes a big difference [...]

Focus in Life

There are many gurus who discuss the same issue of how to be successful.
The problem is that many times an idea is in your head and the words you have to describe the idea are very clumsy tools for effectively communicating the idea.  People resort to words, comparisons, analogies, and other literatry and spoken tools [...]