This summer we traveled to France. We spent 3 days around Paris, a week in a medieval village in the south of France called St. Ambroix, and a week in Sancerre. We rented a car and got to drive the highway in one direction and drove through all the smaller roads coming back. We didn’t have a GPS in our rental car...
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What’s the difference between maintenance and progress in business? When I’m doing the day-to-day operations of my business, I’m just maintaining. If I step outside of the day-to-day and develop a vision of how to make the business better, then I am making progress. The same is true at my house and in my garden....
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The firmly-held Montessori principles, and the fact that they work, have resulted in a strong “Montessori brand” that has not only endured the exile of its creator and several wars, but has remained constant through changing societal attitudes towards children and education.
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I just spent 10 days in Texas with my 98-year old grandfather, Bubba. “Bubba?” you ask. Yes,that’s what we call him. It’s a nickname he got many years ago when his sister couldn’t say brother. I was in Texas because Bubba recently spent some time in the hospital and I needed to visit him and the rest of the family.
Since we were eating out a lot I got to have some pretty tasty Texas-style food. The Tex Mex Chile Rellenos and BBQ brisket were good, but by far my favourite–for culinary and sentimental reasons–was a nifty little corn tortilla sandwich called a “Chihuahua.”
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I imagine this post may not sit well with the liberals, but it has been swirling around in my head for a while now and I wanted to capture it. I think minimum wage is one of the major problems getting in the way of economic recovery. I believe our recovery will happen, but I think this one construct is challenging the...
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On Saturday night my family and I went to a dinner show in town. It seemed like a good activity for the family, and we were pretty excited. The ticket price included a family-friendly meal and child care during
the show, which was a must-have for the twin 3-year-olds. We made our reservations and showed up on time.
