Guy came home with cookies he baked in kindergarten. He offered me the heart shaped cookie with the chocolate chips on top. I have tasted kindergarten cookies before, after all, Guy is my forth child, plus I don’t exactly dislike cookies. Understandably, my enthusiasm was as high as my expectation was, namely none. However, when [...]
In the last week or so I started questioning my own sanity. It felt like wherever I was looking, or whatever I was doing, there were bicycles all around. Children bicycles, adult ones, mountain bikes and race bikes, large and small, cheap and expensive. On the highway, next to my house, on TV. On the [...]
My wife and I took the kids to see “Up” yesterday. My younger child is six, and he is at the point where he is almost ready to sit still for the duration of a movie. “Up” is a wonderful summer children movie. Only it isn’t a children’s movie at all. Of course, all children [...]
In 1967, the Israeli airforce took the Egyptian airforce by complete surprise, practically concluding the war before it even started. Superiority in the sky, we were taught, is everything. I certainly was not an accredited military strategist when I was young, nor am I today. But at the age of fifteen, I knew I wanted [...]
I know I saw this sentence somewhere. But for the life of me I can’t remember where. In any case, I didn’t think it up.
“Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you so clearly stand out?”
When it comes to exceptional, I can think of no better example other than Usane Bolt. By [...]
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