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Entries from November 2008

I’ll Be Home Before Christmas

November 29th, 2008 · No Comments · General

Our week of excitement continued with news the night before Thanksgiving of something more to be thankful for.  We submitted and had our offer accepted on a 3-bedroom starter house in a great old neighborhood in New Lenox, IL.  It’s in a fantastic school district and has a great library and park district with tons of programs [...]

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Tea Parties and the Flu

November 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Interesting Things

The New York Times published two articles on technology that I thought were really interesting.  The first was on using google search to track the flu and the second was on how webcams and skype have transformed the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren.  
The Google Foundation works on figuring out innovative ways to use [...]

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Dusting Off That Passport

November 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · ISPCAN

With great joy I announce that I am once again employed.  After a wide ranging and thankfully brief job search I have accepted a position as the Training Program Manager for the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).  A brief job description is below, but essentially I will be managing programs [...]

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From the Extraordinary to the Ordinary

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments · General

My friend Betsy tells this story about when we were traveling together in Honduras.  It was Betsy, Erika, Michael and I and our friends Maria and Davis who were traveling in Central America for the first time.  For those of you who have never had the pleasure of traveling in the developing world, one important [...]

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Playing Ketchup

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Kids

In the month that Erika and I were apart some things fell by the wayside including photo and video updates to the website.  So here are some updates, that are long overdue.  The photo galleries have about 200 new photos in 4 new galleries.  There are also 8 new videos over at the video player. [...]

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