Trust me. I know how hard it can be to get everything done that you want or need to get done in a day’s time.

With six kids, sometimes it’s hard to imagine how we make everything from coming and going from school, guitar lessons, basketball and baseball games, and other activities  fit into an already chaotic schedule of work…

Two articles this week on the subject of students using cell phones in class made me cringe.

The first one told a tale of students texting back and forth right under the teachers’ noses. The tone was one of futility in trying to stop the activity.

Can you believe this?? We’ve gone from the extreme days of ruler slaps to the wrist…

The President has stated his intention of seeking the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

And today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared he supports that decision.

This is one of the few issues  that I am at odds over with most of my conservative brothers and sisters.

But I have to be consistent and fair.

How would a heterosexual…

My wife has been really discovering some incredible gems in her family’s history while recently starting to build the family tree. She has been able to trace her family back to the Mayflower!

Man. Imagine that! Discovering your ancestors arrived on the MAYFLOWER.

Every week, we make amazing discoveries like this.

Today I read about a family relation that blew…

I can laugh now at how silly I was years ago when I started losing my hair.

You never forget that first glimpse in the double mirrors of department store’s dressing room of the top of your head going thin. That first glimpse of scalp was shocking and humiliating.

After spending hundreds of dollars on everything from creams to sprays…

I’ve always firmly believed that it is the height of egotism and absurdity to think that we are the only intelligent life forms in the Universe.

But most of us who believe in extra terrestrial life have always looked to the heavens for our proof. Some have already claimed, of course, to have encountered such intelligent life.

Now a physicist…

I just read an article in the Vancouver Sun about the different comfort foods people enjoy.

You know, those are the goodies that make us CHILLAX. They can make us feel cozy on a stormy night. They can help cheer us up after a miserable day of fighting the Universe.

They can be sinful or healthy. Salty or sweet or…

Have you noticed the Fort Hood massacre has gone largely forgotten by the media?

I know there have been many other stories that have taken the front page away from it, but even after a revealing report was recently released–barely a peep from anyone.

What is even more maddening is that the report, as lengthy as it is, makes ZERO…

I have heard a lot of things about the negative effects of movies on people, especially the young.

Movies make people violent. They make us smoke. They scramble our scruples. They make us dumb.

But can a movie KILL us??

I don’t mean in the Hollywood formula of a movie in which people who watch a certain video or look at a…

It was a mess at Costco yesterday. Going to the bulk superstore on a stormy Sunday with 8 zillion other people wasn’t exactly the smartest idea I’ve ever had.

But I didn’t complain or grunt like I typically would.

The images of the earthquake in Haiti were still fresh in my mind.

Relief groups have described it as THE worst…