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 …
Second Sermon – What is Life? Priorities on Earth
My second sermon at Benchmark Bible was in June and I spoke about life. What is life? A lot of people …
My First Sermon – What is Your Wind? Peter Walking on Water
I preached my first sermon in February about Peter walking on the water. First Sermon I read about it the Summer before …
Homeschool Technology Lesson 4 and 5 – More Binary and More
The second week of homeschool went very well. My eldest son wrote in his journal that despite “getting Mr. C.” he’s enjoying …
Homeschool: The First Week
Overall the first (full) week of homeschooling went very well. It was a bit exhausting and made time tight, but it went …
Khan Academy for Homeschool
A friend mentioned Khan Academy to me in reference to my homeschool posts. It looks like you can learn a variety …
Homeschool Technology Lesson 3 – Binary (practice)
Today was more practice for homeschool technology lesson. We did more binary and discussed how to calculate what the value when adding …
Homeschool Technology Lesson 2: Binary (Continued)
The second homeschool technology lesson was largely a reminder of the first – I reviewed binary. I wrote on the …
Homeschool Technology Lesson: 1 Binary
I did the first homeschool technology lesson today. I don’t know if I’ll be able to post many and I don’t expect …
Create A Subfolder in Yahoo Mail – iOS
I use email for everything and have lots of folders. But it’s was to figure out how to create a subfolder …
First Day of Homeschooling
Today is the first day of homeschooling so there’s a couple possible outcomes… 1) It goes well or b) this is my last …
DIY Pegboard for Exercise like American Ninja Warrior
I wanted to make a pegboard like Tony Horton and American Ninja Warriors use. I’m cheap so I wanted it DIY. I’m …
Summer 2015 – Month in the ‘Boat lead up to Homeschooling
Lots of thoughts and lessons while in the ‘boat this Summer. Here’s some highlights from Summer 2015… Summer 2015 Alone time – …
Homeschool Subjects and Who’s Teaching What/Who in Homeschooling
We took some time over the last few weeks to look over the homeschool subjects curriculum material and get a sense of it. Then …
Only Believe: Jesus Heals the Daughter of Jairus – Synagogue Official
In Mark 5, a synagogue official named Jairus asks Jesus to heal his daughter. On the way, a messenger comes and tells Jairus …
Perspective: Being Responsible – Parable of the Virgins and the Oil
I was reading the parable of the virgins (Matthew 25) and the lamps. Jesus explains how they are prudent and it’s good. …
Homeschool Curriculum – What We Chose and Why
When we decided to homeschool a big decision would be the homeschool curriculum to use and other related decisions about how we’d …
Why Homeschooling? Reasons we decided to homeschool
We’ve decided to homeschool and though we haven’t mentioned to many people, we are usually asked why. I wanted to think through …