Fall has finally arrived. As someone living in near Dallas, it was a very welcome change. This summer we broke our record of the number of triple digit temperature days in a year. We even had a last gasp of summer on the 29th of September with 102. With the change in seasons comes a …
Since the time that man has harnessed the wind to move boats, sailors have been able to go where they want no matter which way the wind is blowing. It’s all in the set of the sails and the techniques they use. They can even move into the wind by using a technique called tacking. …
It’s school time again and I am resuming my job as Mr. Taxi. I have a son that is starting middle school and a senior in high school. My senior also has an internship every school day at a vet clinic. I’m driving all over the place every school day. The up side of this …
My youngest son’s 5th grade class wrapped up a poetry unit in school and held a ‘poetry cafe’ event where they stood up and read poems. The parents were invited. I noticed that I was the only father there that did not have an access card dangling on my person. On other words, I was …
My sons received the movie, WALL-E, for Christmas. There is a spaceship in that movie named Axiom. To me, that was a strange thing to name a ship so I looked up the definition of axiom. If you remember back to your math, an axiom was something that was accepted and didn’t need to be …