We’ve been drowning in a Lord of the Rings marathon for a while at our house. I know some people would say it’s only a marathon if you start at the beginning of Fellowship and watch until the Return of the King final credits roll, only pausing occasionally to scribble a few notes in dwarf runes and nibble some Lembas bread.[More….]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Some of you know that my oldest son worked this summer as an intern for Khan Academy. Their stated mission is to provide “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” If you think that’s all very well, but not really relevant to you, I challenge you to try to hold on to that opinion once you’ve seen this 91 second video.[More….]
Sometimes the questions we ask ourselves are just really hard to answer. Other times, the hard part is that we’re asking the wrong questions.[More….]
I have a sort of weird, complicated relationship with money. Details on that I’ll save for another day; for now, here’s an opinion that’s neither weird nor complicated. I find the idea that you can buy happiness to be highly suspect, and perhaps you do, too. I think we’re not alone, which is why the assertion that “money can buy happiness–if you spend it right” makes a good teaser for the book[More….]
In my last post I asserted that we are sometimes afraid of the wrong things. I can now present to you an excellent candidate to win the title, “thing you should be scared of.”[More….]
Lori Notes 