Stranger Danger: How and When Do You Teach This to Your Kids?

A couple weeks ago, Andrew received an email from a female work associate of his.  In the message, a terribly frightening situation was detailed in which the woman’s daughter was approached by a stranger while the chid was playing on the “ride on” cars in the front of a Wallmart.  The man apparnetly tried to [...]

Teaching Gender Roles

We are an equal opportunity household…I think.  In lieu of this fact, Andrew and I have been very careful to neither encourage nor discourage the playing with of certain toys for certain children, based on gender.  Our daughter is just as likely to place race cars and soccer as our son is to dust his [...]

The Art of Dialog

For a writer, nailing dialog can be an uphill battle.  When you’re writing fiction, in particular; responsible for the entire creation of your characters…down to their habits and quirks and, yes, the way they speak…constructing believable and consistent dialog can be really tough.
I’m not exactly talking about punctuation and grammar…let’s assume a writer has those [...]

Tyrany, and Presidential Campaigning, According to a Five-Year-Old: The Stuff Writer’s Inspiration is Made Of

This past week, we started giving our five-year-old an allowance.  It may seem a bit early for this, but we’re really doing it to start teaching her about saving money, and especially advancing her understanding of how money works, as she’s started asking questions about the value of a dollar, vs. a quarter, etc.
So, in [...]

I Have Seen Beauty…

Before sharing a mantage of photos from our trip to the Glacier Nat’l Park area…let be preface this post by saying: we didn’t find our camera until half way through our trip. Therefore, we missed taking pic’s from our drive up the Road to the Sun, the mountain goats, rams, marmots, ground squirrels, [...]