This meme inspired me to share. I’m sure that many of us alive today survived much worse than what is depicted here. Many of us had to...

People often ask me why I’m an atheist. I find this question to be absurd. It’s like asking me why my eyes are brown, or why I’m female....

I finally got to see Frozen yesterday. It was a refreshing change from Disney’s damsels in distress, good vs. evil dichotomies, and other...

Parents have been bribing specific kinds of behavior from children since long before any of us can remember. Children respond to this...

I have been using this blog as a bit of an internet diary–a way to vent my frustrations. I’m sure that there are a few people who come...

This is an urban myth I’ve always had an issue with. We see this in crime dramas, mystery movies, and hear it in word of mouth tails all...

To begin with, I want to express my feelings on the institution of marriage. This institution has a very sorted history. At one time,...

Someone close to me said recently, “I don’t think my mom raised a son; she raised an investment.” That statement struck me as a sad and...

Over the years I’ve lived in many different places. Some for short periods of time, others for longer periods of time. I’ve always found...

I was having a conversation earlier today with someone close to me who said something that struck a cord, “Churches are nothing but...

Why is it that parents want to think that their young toddlers would willingly and purposely do things to upset, frustrate and anger...

There are many different types of love. In other languages, there are separate words to describe which kind of love a person is referring...

One of my all time heroes, Steven Hawking, once said, “The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” I’ve...

One of the main arguments I hear against the concept of educating children at home is the idea that they will be deprived of social...

I’m a bit older than a lot of people who breech the subject of child rearing. Most people who do so tend to be in the process of rearing...

I”m going to gripe about our modern classroom again. I’m sure people are getting a bit tired of it, but I want to start instilling a...

I’m going through some personal issues at the moment. Someone I thought I could trust betrayed me. For years I’ve been trying my best to...

Since I’ve been here in California I’ve noticed that a lot of people treat their family as an obligation–people that they have to visit...