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Flying Pink Unicorns - budgeting and envelopes oh my!

March 26, 2007 – 10:38 am

First, to help set the stage for why I think doing this Financial Peace thing, read this day-by-day strip, g’head, I’ll wait.
back?  good.
I don’t want to know how much of our money each month goes to interest.  Not just mortgage interest, but credit card interest.  My lord, I think we could probably fund all of [...]

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Time she keeps on marching…

March 20, 2007 – 11:10 am

As my children grow older, we are starting to see some of the fruits of whatever parenting wisdom we’ve somehow induced into our children.  This past weekend had a few moments where I felt awful proud of my kids and how they have grown and molded.  The four year old still has some rough patches [...]

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Lordship - the horse flogging begins…

November 16, 2006 – 2:16 pm

I blogged tangentially on Phil Johnson’s Lordship series in my post ‘Morphin’ Time…‘. Last night I wrapped up my class that surveyed John Ortberg’s The Life You’ve Always Wanted. Today Phil has posted the last of the Lordship series and an open post for any doubters/debators to keep on whaling on the horse [...]

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Frontiers of Flight Museum - Anousheh Ansari

November 2, 2006 – 6:32 pm

A while back I posted about Lauren being able to talk live to space astronaut/tourist Anousheh Ansari. Tonight she is in town at the Dallas Frontiers of Flight Museum and has a special hour put aside simply for the kids that were invited to the previous event. It is really cool that they [...]

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Fascinating… a hole in the wall.

October 3, 2006 – 9:05 am

One of Protein Wisdom’s guest bloggers, Dan Collins points to an interesting article on “minimally invasive education.” The introduction to the article explains the premise (a fascinating skinner box experiment).
An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in [...]

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Lauren’s lesson from space

September 26, 2006 – 10:51 pm

Lauren got to listen to Anousheh Ansari in space on , the world’s first female space tourist, the first female Muslim, and the first Iranian in space. WFAA ran a story on their newscast, and have a video available. I wasn’t able to see Lauren in the video, but I’m sure it was [...]

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Pike’s First Law - Adults are babies with big bodies.

September 8, 2006 – 9:57 am

Bob Pike has a list of laws as they relate to adult learning and training.
His first law, and the topic of this post is:
Adults are babies with big bodies.
When this was discussed the past two-days it took a different tact than the way I’ve normally had it explained. My peers in the classroom tossed [...]

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