What does fate have to do with our Personal Legend? (by Mike) vicodin There’s an important difference between blind fate and the path of the personal legend. When we speak of fate, man’s free will is absent: we are merely puppets in the hands of a cold and distant puppeteer. In the case of personal [...]
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When I first had this video pop up in my email box I instantly disliked the theme and figured I’d watch it, post it and blast it. Sometimes a funny thing happens when you take a couple of minutes to actually listen tosomething before you judge it….and that’s what happened with this video. After actually watching this [...]
Many of you have probably already seen (or heard of) the following commencement speech from Steve Jobs at Stanford in the spring of 2005. As we’re hitting the end of the year I’m finding myself in one of those inevitable life evaluation phases that happens so frequently around the end of the year, around landmark [...]
Today in Michigan is primary election day. Today’s one of those days when we can learn who’s serious and who’s just part of the peanut gallery barking at those on the field but unwilling to actually do something. Look, since the time this country started fighting for it’s freedom we’ve had over 1,095,000 US soldiers [...]
After a couple of weeks covering education and school topics (including the need for reforming the school lunch program and the reforms modeled in the movie and book “Waiting For Superman” ) and arguing the need, especially in this election, to not only make informed decisions but then hold these politicians accountable we figured it was [...]
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Came across a product – aptly named – “Smelly Washer” that I saw recommended in our local Metro Parent magazine. Not that it’s a problem at OUR house …. but I might go out and pick up a bottle of this product tonight … you know to test, for research reasons but NOT because it’s [...]
In our inaugural show on 1310 WDTW we had the great opportunity to interview Chef Ann Cooper – The Renegade Lunch Lady (this was after the unfortunate incident where I accidentally stuck my foot in the urinal which we discussed in the beginning of this same show – sorry Chef Ann). Now I’ll admit, at first blush [...]
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I wanted to share with you a great site that I’ve been using with my son this summer, it’s called: It’s a site that allows you to quickly and easily create math worksheets for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or a mix of all of the above. In addition to that it also allows you to [...]
Some days it gets hard to remember why we as parents, teachers, grandparents and advocates for kids do it. Some days it gets easy to think that maybe enough is enough, you’ve put in enough time, you’ve tried hard enough and now it’s time to either just walk away or loosen your grip and let [...]
Wednesday and Tuesday at 3:00pm If you pull nothing else out of our interview with Fare Compare those two pieces of information alone will save you thousands. Why Wednesday? Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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This weekend we’re doing a show that Staci has really been wanting to do for a while and is really excited to share with you. In the summer we’re bombarded with the suntan, sunblock, sun lotion argument … So what’s a parent to do when it comes to keeping their family safe in the sun? [...]
The biggest challenge with Gluten Free is that, especially in the beginning, it means taste free and giving up the stuff you love. Maybe not …. Gluten Free Pie Crust: Impossibly Easy | Gluten Free Cooking School Gluten Free Pizza Recipe | Gluten Free Cooking School Hershey Pie with a Rice Cereal Crust | Gluten [...]
Can’t figure out why there’s bullying in the schools – here’s why: “The Lakeview Public Schools was recently notified of one parent’s allegations of bullying at Ardmore Elementary. Ardmore Elementary is an outstanding place for children to receive an education with committed staff and caring parents. We believe any allegation that suggests there is a [...]
I support the idea of Autism Insurance legislation. But I’ll confess that I struggle with it…quite a bit actually. I consider myself a libertarian leaning conservative so in my opinion the smaller, less intrusive we can get our government to be the better. So, for obvious reasons my support of the idea of mandated Autism [...]
Gerard Mantese (Mantese, Honigman, Rossman and Williamson) and John J. Conway are on the front lines of the Autism Insurance fight in the state of Michigan. However, unlike those that are fighting for legislation to require Autism coverage these lawyers are fighting in the courtrooms to get the Insurance companies to cover the children that, [...]
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We aired our interview with Lorri Unumb from Autism Speaks this past Sunday, however, we weren’t able to cover everything that we wanted to. You see Lorri was extremely gracious to move her schedule around to allow us the opportunity to pre-record our interview with her last week for our Sunday show. Originally the plan [...]
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