As a teenager, I would enjoy this little exercise: When asked the time, I would just blurt out the correct time. Next I would check my watch to verify my accuracy. As a young parent, I could hear Sweet Mom quizzing a kid on schoolwork in another room. The door was closed and their […]
Month: June 2008
Golden Biscuits
With a flash, and over as soon as it began is how the first event happened. Newlywed and living in a triplex house, we were to experience two unexplainable events that remain as the first of many such occurrences throughout our married lives. Upon moving to our home on Marcie St., we were informed […]
Lost on Father’s Day?
On Father’s Day morning, we awoke unsure of what we would do for the holiday. Instead of bad weather like we had for Memorial Day 2 years ago when we went to Yellowstone, the weather was beautiful and hot, with temperatures around 75 degrees. As the day went on, the word spread that we would […]
Ten Sixty-Six: A Homeschool Lesson
As far as I’m concerned, learning is an all the time, anytime kind of thing. And as such, last Father’s Day was the perfect opportunity to inspire a lesson about The Battle of Hastings. We had gone out to Glacier National Park to enjoy the ideal weather and to barbecue at Fish Creek picnic area. […]
Mind Over Temperature
A colleague, whom I’ll call Ralph, once told me of a miraculous product developed by a customer of his. When placed in a refrigerator, this device would through energy savings, pay for itself many times over. The customer, whom I’ll refer to as Bill, had sole access to the secret mixture of minerals that provided […]
Ewe To?
In the evolution of language, words or phrases come into popular usage and then fade back into obscurity. These changes happen with such rapidity as to evidence an almost instantaneous collective agreement to the new vernacular. Some years ago I witnessed the strange birth of a new popular term. The term was “absolutely”! What […]