Wellbeing

Yeah, um... well...

“I don’t expect to find anything, but I’d like to have this test done just in case.” How many times has your doctor dropped this little number on you? I’ve gotten it lots of times, and it never used to bother me. Then one day a test came back and I was summoned to the office… sooner than previously arranged. Those of you who have studied behavioral psychology…
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Family and Friends

How young is too young to commit?

How many of you started reading this post thinking it was criminal justice related? Come on, give it up. You thought this was another political rant, didn’t you? No friends, this one’s just fluff… a cotton-candy piece, if you will. What I really want to know is this: has the wiring of the brain of a three-year-old boy gelled enough to pick his own paint color for his room? I ask…
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Important Stuff

Bottling water

We stopped buying bottled water about a year ago. Here’s a few good reasons why: From Think Outside the Bottle: Worldwide, consumers spent $100 billion on bottled water in 2005. Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil last year – enough fuel for more than 1 million U.S. cars for a year – and…
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Beth

I hope they know

There aren’t many things that make me feel more fallible as a parent than trying to be one with a hum-dinger of a headache. There aren’t many things that make me feel much better than my kids showing me it doesn’t matter. I woke up from a nap on Saturday with Beth kneeling next to me, asking “Are you feeling better dad?” You know what? I was. She’d asked me that…
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Going for Broke

A new MacBook

My wife was good and mad this morning when she saw this in our email inbox: I don’t know about you, but I’m not allowed to make this kind of purchase on my own. Lucky for me, the internet age has allowed us to pull up our credit card statements online – so I could prove my innocence really quick. But that got us both to worrying… had someone stolen my identity? We pulled a…
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