I’m not the ideal parent, but I may wrestle through a few of those issues.
It hit the news recently that Elon Musk’s 120 hour weeks were wearing down on him. Gee, you don’t say. What the article barely touched on – and only in passing – was the impact that his tenacious focus on his career might be having on his family.
Continue reading “Work and family”
Well clearly this has been a full summer for me, as my blogging has completely fallen by the wayside. I have reason to believe that this Fall I will be able to chip out small chunks of time to get this habit back up and running. I hope so; it’s one of my tools for maintaining sanity.
So here’s some interesting stuff I came across, starting with some Mormon missionaries beating the living tar out of a mugger!
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of our wedding day. Given all the recent health developments it was extremely personally gratifying to spend the day driving through the mountains and walking around in nature a bit, enjoying the sights and sounds of the Rockies.
Here are a couple of photos, followed by some obligatory philosophical musing.
For recent subscribers to this blog, it isn’t normally “all Denise, all the time” as it has been lately. I primarily write about other stuff that strikes my fancy. With Denise’s significant improvements of late, the updates should be less frequent, but I’ll continue to cover the highlights.
But for now, here are a few things that seemed interesting to me in the past while (unrelated to Denise)…
Suppose I started telling you a story involving Hobbits and wizards, and something about a ring. Immediately you would recognize that I am describing “Middle Earth” as Tolkien called it.
But you would never confuse Middle Earth for our world.
Continue reading “Queers, language and the nature of reality”
Diverting public funds to subsidize private schools seems like a bad idea, doesn’t it? Well, apparently about 2/3 of Albertans think it’s a bad idea.
Let’s do some math.
Continue reading “Public education, private education and funding”
Here’s a bunch of stuff I found interesting recently, beginning with legalized pot.
Some interesting stuff I read…
