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My Kids Learned The Econ Lesson

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Econ Lessons for My Kids

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

My oldest daughter is 13 years old. Walking into the bathroom after her is like walking into a data center as they’re pulling cable. Wires everywhere. Terminating in flat irons, curling irons, curlers, and myriad other energy sucking devices. Only 5 more years to go. Hopefully. But then two other sisters wait to follow in [...]

Finding Ways for Families to Serve the Poor

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Pete McCreary, Rich Rayburn, Steve Jordan, Andy Graham and I met last night to discuss how the families in our home school co-op can get out in the community to serve the needy families. As we looked at our nice, orderly suburban lives it seemed that most of our activities revolved around ourselves and our [...]

Public Speaking

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

My wife home schools our children. As my kids get older I’ve been getting more and more involved. What that means in reality is that my wife is not at home most of the time and my evenings are spent one-on-one with my kids. This is high quality family time as I work with my [...]

Blog Proliferation

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Okay, I’m doing it again. I have too many distinct audiences to serve any one of them well from the same blog site. You’re probably reading this through RSS, so the change won’t be visibly obvious, so you won’t see that andyerickson.org points to an about page. This blog is now partitioned into subject matter. [...]

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