Lets start out with the cool new parenting trick. If you have a kid that is old enough to start understanding serious matters, get them hooked on documentaries. The first one I went for was Paper Clips (2004), which follows on small school’s attempt to raise 6 million paper clips to more fully understand the significance of the Holocaust. The movie is not so much [...]

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When the study at NHV prompted my first (lengthy) post on the subject just over a month ago, the question was raised “What is our ‘logos?’ What word or phrase transcends (or maybe could transcend) cultures in order to galvanize large groups of people?” At the time, both in the study and via an email discussion with a friend, it was agreed that nothing in [...]

This was one of the best Christmas seasons we’ve had in a while (and now, the rest of the post will not have a thing to do with Christmas)… Follow that with a weeklong visit with from my brother who is heading off to Afghanistan in April.  He already spent a year in Iraq, but from what he and I hear, Iraq is a cakewalk [...]