Family

My family and I are supporters of the Jacob’s Oven Project, which is a charity to help mothers and families in Africa become more self-reliant.  It’s a very cool project and my wife and I are helping.  We’ve donated an Oven and have called it “Preston”, the name of our adopted child.  Also, any proceeds [...]

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My family and I have been in Disneyland all week (since March 18 until March 23).  This has been a really fun break — I love spending time with my family.   While on my vacation, I’ve made it a point to see how Queueing works in theme parks, such as Disneyland, where a system [...]

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We had a wall knocked down recently, and we are really happy about the result. Previously, as you walked into our front door, you were immediately met with a small front room and an awckward wall. Now, when you walk in, there is a big wide and long room, perfect for wrestling in, entertaining, and [...]

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Today in the United States, we celebrate Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Earlier this morning I took out A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., which I bought 13 years ago, when I first became very interested Martin Luther King, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and in Gandhi. In that book, [...]

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Interested in Advertising here?  Contact me! My brother-in-law had his wisdom teeth removed the other day. His crazy dentist took a picture of him while he was under anesthesia and my brother-in-law was good enought to share that picture with the family and with the readers of shmula 1. Below is my brother-in-law. I do not [...]

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After some research on the Suburban versus the GMC Yukon XL, we decided to go with a 2007 Suburban. I comes with OnStar, which is a communications, monitoring, and tracking service. This is a pretty cool service. This week, I received an email that shows me the status of my Suburban components — Tire Pressure, [...]

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I took my 7 and 9 year old kids snowboarding last week. It was a lot of fun. We went to Park City, Utah — all three of us have season passes there. I enrolled the kids in an all-day session. Park City has a 1:5 ratio for teachers to students and, fortunately, the kids’ [...]

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