Tonight we confirmed our fear that we had a black bear ransacking our trash cans, bird feeder, and gorging on the dried cat food we feed to our pond fish. About 15 minutes before total darkness my wife spotted the bear sitting down in the corner of our field watching over our house apparently waiting [...]
Astronomers selected the ten most amazing pictures taken by Hubble Space Telescope in last 16 years. “…they illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful.” Michael Hanlon/AH (Nov 25th, 2006) After correcting an initial problem with the lens, when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched in 1990, the [...]
NewsForParents.org is a great site for parents. They offers hundreds of well written articles on a wide variety of topics of interest to a dad. Some of the main topics include; latest parenting news, family and home, babies, pregnancy, special needs children, and several other topics for moms and dads at all stages of parenthood. [...]
I’m stunned by the news that a CA appeals court has ruled that parents are not allowed to educate their own children unless they are credentialed educators. Over 160,000 children in CA are taught at home and this ruling means that these children must start going to a public school or private school with teachers [...]
A soldier serving in Iraq sent me this link today and asked me to share it with everyone I could. Please forward the link along. Thanks. Gratitude Campaign The word is spreading… The Seattle Seahawks, in stadium at Qwest Field and on www.spiritof12.com The Pittsburgh Steelers, in-stadium at Heinz Field The Seattle Storm, in-arena at [...]
YouTube rolled out a program for nonprofits that will help charities promote their cause using the power of video. They’re offering a free video camera to the first 300 nonprofits that sign up and no doubt they’re going fast. U.S. nonprofits with 501(c)(3) tax status are eligible so get in touch with your favorite cause [...]
As a lifelong Redskins fan my heart is very heavy today as I learn that Sean Taylor passed away early this morning from a gunshot wound he received during a robbery at his home near Miami. Sean was just 24 years old and was just starting out on his journey as a dad with his [...]
These Mole and Thomas classic photographs were taken during and after World War I as part of the U.S. support the war campaign. The photographs must have taken hours to setup and provide a nice contrast to the naked human photographs that our generation will be remembered for 90 years from now! The photograph above [...]
