Booples Milestone – Burning the Ships
I haven’t done any real work on Booples in a few years and my hard-drive was getting full. Unlike one school of …
Intervals of Thirds – 2 Key Things to Understanding
You may have heard of the circle of fifths. It’s a very useful and helpful way to memorize 4th and 5th intervals. …
SkySaver Backpack to Escape From a Building… or Fun!
I saw a video for SkySaver backpacks and they look like they could really save lives… or be a lot of fun …
Prevent Guitar Dehydration: 2 Products to Prevent
I had no idea I needed to prevent guitar dehydration until I took my guitar in to be setup. He recommended a slightly …
Best Clip-on Guitar Tuner – Snark Tuners – Quick, Good, Cheap
In the past, I’ve used a variety of tuners for guitars. I’ve even had a tuning fork at one point. That was …
5 Fingerstyle Picks Compared to Fingernails
I tried a variety of fingerstyle picks when learning fingerstyle guitar. People have opinions and recommendations and I wanted to find a …
Eyeballing – Putting Eyeball Stickers on Random Things
I went through a bit of a phase of eyeballing – putting eyeball stickers on signs and such. I’d hoped to come up …
2 Capos for Fingerstyle for Fast Changing
I’ve always been intimidated by capos… Well, I used to be intimidated by them. I tend to shy away from “complicated” things: …
7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Book) – Thoughts and Notes
This week I read 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (book) by Stephen R. Covey. What a great book with tons of insight …
5 Great Guitar Hand Stretches for Beginners and Others
I was reluctant to use guitar hand stretches before playing guitar. However, I noticed the more I played, the better I got, but …
3 Key Parts to The Tipping Point (book) by Malcolm Gladwell
After “David and Goliath” I wanted to read more Malcolm Gladwell books and quickly read “The Tipping Point.” The Tipping Point is a …
3 Thoughts on David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
I read “Outliers” a few years back and really enjoyed it. I’ve been meaning to read his other books and recently read …
Who am I? Our Identity In Christ (sermon)
I taught on Mother’s Day but ironically start out with a bit of a twist… Watch full video This is a sermon …
Homeschool Road Trip 2: Grand Canyon, California, etc.
We took our first homeschool road trip in the Fall (East US). The second one was in April and we went west …
Best Home Workout for Men Over 40
Best Home Workout for Men Over 40 Guest post by Ivii Clement from nutritioninspector.com: It is stereotypical to believe that being …
Worship: A Lifestyle in Spirit and Truth (sermon)
Date: 2/14/16 Title: Worship as a Lifestyle in Spirit and Truth Teacher: Bear Cahill
Brave Combo – The brief time I fronted a band…
Remember that brief time that I fronted Brave Combo? I guess I can scratch that off …
My Contribution to Decorating
I don’t do much in the decorating arena, but I felt the cabinets were lacking. A while back I put an 8×10 …
Google 2015 – What We Searched
What people are thinking about and wondering about is what we tend to also search for online. It can be pretty revealing …
2015 Headshot Video
Happy New Year! I tried to take a pic each day again this year and make it into a video. …
What if Christmas Really Happened? (Sermon)
Date: 12/13/15 Title: What if Christmas Really Happened? Teacher: Bear Cahill Images referenced in the message: We often read …
Busyness – What Does It Mean?
For a long time people have talked about being busy, being too busy, everyone being too busy and busyness in general. …
Homeschool Road Trip – 3.5 weeks, 17 States – East U.S.
We decided to try to travel a good bit during this year of homeschooling. We planned a big homeschool road trip …
Homeschool While Traveling – Picture Gallery
Here’s a bunch of pics of our trip and how we homeschool while traveling. As you can see we crossed a …
Homeschool on the Road – Traveling and Teaching
While doing homeschool on the road we had to make a few adjustments. How to teach technology? We don’t have our …
My Way News – Volkswagen sets aside $7.3 billion over emissions scandal
Admitted it… finally. It really bugs me how people/companies (Volkswagen) deny any wrongdoing until they can’t any longer. I mean, it’s terrible …
Homeschool Tech Lessons 6-7 – Memory and Minecraft
I’m continuing with the homeschool tech lessons based on number systems (binary, decimal and hexadecimal). In the last lesson I moved on to …
Train Wreck – The Band – The Movie
In 1995, Erik Herbst and I worked 2 nights as part of the band “Train Wreck.” I think it was part of …
Running – Fitness Based on Time (not fun)
This Summer, as we considered how this Fall would go homeschooling, I decided how my schedule would look for the most …
Forgiveness: Forgiven and Forgivin’ – Sermon
My third sermon at Benchmark Bible was on forgiveness. How we are forgiven, how we work on our fellowship with God, now …