August 31st, 2008 07:42pm
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Last week, I asked my 20-year-old son, Ethan, to try and find the graphing calculator we bought him when he took high school trigonometry four years ago. His younger sister has the same class this year and I was hoping to avoid shelling out $100 again for a new one. After Ethan completed his general ed math requirements a year or two ago, he hoped to be done with factoring …
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August 24th, 2008 10:16pm
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My 16-year-old daughter, Valerie, recently got her provisional driving permit. The next step in the process to becoming a fully licensed driver is for her to accrue 50 hours of behind the wheel time over the next six months. Of course having a license means freedom so she wants to make sure she is fully prepared to pass the driving test when she takes it on the earliest possible date, …
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August 17th, 2008 08:52pm
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Last Friday, my daughter and I went to her seventh grade orientation at the junior high school. If you’ve ever stood in line waiting to get on the fastest, scariest, and most thrilling ride at an amusement park, then you’ll understand the feeling in the air on that day.
For the new junior high students, there was excitement about being in a much larger school, anticipation about classes and making new …
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August 11th, 2008 10:54am
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One of the goals we had for this summer was to get Valerie a new desk for her room. To the best of my recollection, we bought the desk she has been using when she was about six-years-old. It’s kind of a wood version of a Little Tikes table. The desk’s small size and matching mini-chair make it very cute to look at but don’t measure up now that she …
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August 3rd, 2008 11:03pm
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As I mentioned in my blog a couple of weeks ago, at the beginning of summer my 16-year-old daughter, Valerie, made a list of places in the Bay Area that she wanted to visit before school starts in August. Most of the destinations on the list are shopping opportunities such as Nordstrom Rack, the bead store, and even the Dump where she wanted to scavenge for a funky shelf that …
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