In my last post (and some of my earliest blog posts -- books for boys, books for girls, and books to read aloud) I recommended books I thought were excellent or in danger of being forgotten. One book (The Black Book of Secrets) got it's own review because I liked it so much and thought…
In case you, like me, have no idea what "Smite" is, let me enlighten you. Smite is a video game in which you, the player, get to pretend to be one of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Indian, or any other god. Two groups of players, five on each team, each assume one of these…
Our daughter and granddaughter, who I will call "Brenda" and "Sophie" in this blog (obviously not their real names!) have been living with us and will do so until later in 2020 when Brenda marries her fiance, "Peyton." (Also not his real name.) Sophie calls my wife and me "Oma" and "Opa" which is German…
If you are underage, please ask your parents first before reading this blog post! The DC Animated Universe Pictured at the top of this post are characters from the DC Animated Universe. From left to right, they are: Shazam (formerly Captain Marvel, but Marvel had the rights to the name "Captain Marvel" and successfully wrested…
If you are under age, please ask your parents before reading this blog post. Television has changed a lot since I was a boy. When I was a boy When I was a boy, there was simply no profanity on television. Not even a "hell" or a"damn." Sexual situations were (very tastefully) done off camera,…
Because I'm on vacation and couldn't think of anything else to do, I've decided to print an except from my book Misadventures in Childrearing in an attempt to entice you to purchase it. My wife and oldest son convinced me to start this blog because they said more people might purchase my books. (They were…
This story I found on the FoxNews website decided me to blog on a Sunday when I should be doing other things. For those who don't want to read it themselves (and in case the article is taken down) here's the gist: three states in the United States of America, Illinois, Maryland, and Oregon, have…
We had four children, all of whom were schooled at home for much of their lives. Why did we do it? (Most Homeschool families might not always look as enthusiastically happy as the one pictured, but the mother teaching with a baby on her hip isn't that far from the truth. The bookcase crammed with…
This article in Fox News talks about how child abusers use homeschooling to hide their abuse. It was a chilling article. Chilling because of the horrible abuse some of the children underwent, and chilling because it seemed to treat homeschool families as somehow more prone to evil than public school families. The Article I linked…
Have you ever heard this: America is a racist society? Of course you have! One statistic that is used to prove this is the incarceration rates of African Americans as opposed to the incarceration rate of whites. This article explains that the incarceration rate for African Americans is six times higher than that of the…
The Kaleidoscope of Culture 