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Last month Thing 1 randomly asked us why we don’t pray before we eat meals. She had just recently returned from spending three weeks with my parents who are Christians and prayed before meals with her. It was like one of those Twix “Need A Moment?” commercials, at the dinner table.

AMC is starting a new TV series this fall, beginning on Halloween night, with a 90-minute special pilot episode of “The Walking Dead”. Emerging from the ashes of our dearly-departed demons is The Walking Dead. The classic comic book series by Robert Kirkman has been adapted by Frank Darabont (writer of The Shawshank Redemption, The [...]

Thing 1 has a friend, whom we’ll call “Sally.” The two girls were in the same class in 4th grade and spent a lot of time together outside of school, having playdates and sleepovers. They called each other best friends. Now, Sally’s parents were going through a rough time and would do things like separate [...]

Today was the start of the 2010-2011 school year for our kids. Thing 1 started 5th grade today, while Thing 2 started Kindergarten. Surprisingly, there were no tears from Thing 2 this morning. I think having spent a lot of his 5 years on this Earth at the school, for various school-related functions for Thing [...]

Last night, Thing 3 really got a handle on the whole crawling thing. Being the proud parents we are, we took a short video of her bee-bopping around the living room. Some things never lose their excitement, no matter how many times you’ve seen a baby’s first long-distance crawl (Nevermind the loud “Wizards of Waverly [...]

I would just like to say, that this guy is a shining example of what I expect our elected officials to do: Get up there, get in each other’s faces and hold one another accountable when they see a fellow elected official playing political games to avoid having to actually take a stand. It should [...]

A few weeks ago, Keli and I watched “The Bucket List” and, while it was a pretty funny movie, it got me wondering, as I’m sure it did for everyone who watched it, what would I put on my own Bucket List. I mentioned this on Twitter, then @calandro5 and I started talking and decided [...]

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis When my wife and I got married a number of years ago, we made a big mistake by racking up a bunch of credit card debt. It’s quite sad to realize you’re still paying off a dinner [...]

Almost two years ago I wrote a post titled “The Shaving Conundrum,” which talked about my switch from regular Gillette Mach 3 razors to shaving with a double-edge safety razor. Recently, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article titled “Razor Burn: A Flood of Fancy Shavers Leaves Some Men Feeling Nicked” which also talks about [...]

YoungEntrepreneur.com has a great post today, on recent study findings relating to ways to keep employees motivated. The study results might surprise you! This video demonstrates something I learned years ago in school about motivation and the psychology of people in general. We’re not necessarily motivated just by money. Sure, money is important but once [...]