If I Could Stop Time

I’m busy. I mean, I’m really busy. I have a job at Sun. I have an equivalent of a job with clients. I’m homeschooling my kids, and transporting them to and fro various classes including ballet, swimming, gears, and dinosaurs.
I don’t have time to goof off writing in my blog. Yet here I am, writing [...]

Swimming with Dolphins

It’s illegal to swim with wild dolphins in most oceans. So, if you want to swim with Flipper, you have to an aquarium with dolphins.
I had to get over the mental problem of “If I let my daughter swim with dolphins in an aquarium setting, then I am helping to pay for captive dolphins.” [...]

I Don’t Want My Kids Socialized

I don’t want my kids socialized. For the most part, I think socialization is a bad thing.
Now, before you call social services, let’s talk semantics. There’s a big difference between socialization and social development.
Socialization is the process where people learn their place in society. For children, socialization means raising your hand [...]

Post Vacation Blues

We’ve taken a lot of vacation time this year.
We started off the year with a week-long trip to Disney World. Fun was had by all. I liked Animal Kingdom the best; Leon liked Epcot; Quinn and Anna liked the Magic Kingdom the best-even though they got to meet Mater and Lightening McQueen at [...]

That Nagging Question

When I was in grammar school, about thirty years ago, I was taught that a species was a group of animals that could mate and produce fertile offspring. That seemed like a reasonable, simple definition and I was content with it for about 29 years.
My definition of species has been tested over this last [...]