I Simplify Darts
Simple, Safe Darts Has this happened to you? You’re off to the local bar to play for the Dart Championship. You have a five-year old girl, Stella. She adores you. She wants to play darts […]
Tag: learning
Teaching your teen is not impossible
My 15-year-old no longer has patience—not with inconvenience, not with failure and not with learning, which is often the takeaway in times of inconvenience and failure . . . if you have patience. It seems […]
Horrible dads attract horrible stuff
Aaaah-choo! I knew right then I had the flu, even though, days later, I was fine, not another sneeze or other symptom to be found. But horrible stuff happens all the time, so I wasn’t […]
Things My Father Taught Me
My father was an extraordinary man. He was an attorney who won 99% of his cases. He played piano like a virtuoso even though he couldn’t read a note of music. He was extremely well-read. […]
Happy ending to dog’s tale
Our pet beagle eats his food fast—really fast. I wondered if we should do something about it. So my wife told a friend, the friend told another friend who was a veterinarian, and the veterinarian […]
Another Important Use of the Spell Checker
Just as I suppose my parents lamented the arrival of the digital watch, which softened my generation’s ability to read an analog watch or a sundial, and their parents lamented the arrival of the calculator […]