Living—Happily Ever After

And while they did indeed live happily ever after; the point, gentlemen, is that they lived. This quote from the Cinderella-esque movie, Ever After, is one of the best movie quotes of all time, in my opinion. It is so profound and applicable. Today I watched this...

Help Me Do The Very Best My Neighbor Can Do

When I create my world, chocolate will be dietetic, the seasons will be: three months of fall, four months of spring, one month of winter (December), and four months of enough money to travel around the world and hit whatever season I want. Also, there will be no PMS,...

Collaborize Classroom

When it comes to school stuff, I'm not a huge supporter. With all the resources and infrastructure, our schools could be second-to-none. But with all the competing interests and egos—not to mention billions of dollars—they've become a hodge podge of half-baked ideas,...

School Science Fair Projects

I put school science fairs right up there with the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. More often than not, it's a competition between parents. But done right—which might mean allowing your children to do the work (and the learning) themselves—there is no better way to...

New Year’s Resolutions 2011

In a perfect world, this post would have been published on January 1. But it's not. And it wasn't. I can say, however, that I've been working on this year's resolutions using my goal setting system since New Year's Day. It's a process that takes some time and...