People see what they want to see Reading the paper, I was surprised to see a letter to the editor claiming the January 6th committee is all about nothing. The author seemed to focus on Cassie Hutchinson’s testimony, claiming that the Secret Service disputed her story. Yet what I saw…

I want to support Public Schools…. Are Private Schools Worth It? One of my local groups on Facebook had this question come up. Our own family now has at one point or another tried private, public and homeschooling. The situation made a huge difference in what was best at the…

How many features is too many? Driving today I was in a discussion about how much easier it was to fix cars in the past. How the new features are just more to break. Earlier in the drive we had a discussion though about old washing machines. The original washing…

Teachers are leaving our district in herds…..Is it better to keep a bad teacher? I’ve worked as a long-term sub at our local school in a couple different subjects… Both the Jr High and the High School. This year especially there have been several teachers resign. …

Part of the Genealogy 52 Week Set of Posts In my family history there are plenty of sets of sisters. I always thought I would love having a sister, still do… My sister in laws are all far enough away that we rarely see them, most of my interactions are…

There is no way around it I remember a class on surveys years ago talking about the bias in surveys. I really don’t think it’s possible to make a survey without some sort of bias built in. Many bias that are built in are things that most wouldn’t even think about. To participate on a phone…

Keeping Horses I’m not sure if I can really call a horse a pet, but then we had a Buffalo as a pet growing up, so…. My father didn’t really like horses, which was strange since we had just about every type of animal growing up. The only animal that…

I just happened to notice someone discussing whether people that are white should celebrate Juneteenth. I also just saw an article about ‘10 things we want white people to do to celebrate Juneteenth.’ I have to admit I was excited to see that one since suggestions of what to do…

It isn’t just he said, she said it can be they said…. A post came across my feed on social media a few days ago (Right after the Depp Heard trial), where a person was talking about basically how she didn’t believe Heard. Poster has 390K followers on one platform…