Just a reminder that we’ve got an Attrition Survey ongoing. If you know how many people started out in your LID group, and how many are left, then please click here and fill out the survey. The attrition survey will ask four questions: your agency, your LID, how many people started out in your LID [...]

In June of last year I asked if your family had an emergency plan that included someone able to take care of your kids if you needed to rush to the emergency room with your spouse at two in the morning. Many of you had concerns, so I finally shared that we were someone else’s [...]

I’ve put another Attrition Survey up. We can’t get attrition numbers from a poll, since people who have left the program aren’t likely to be hanging out here anymore to tell us about it on a poll. The best way I’ve been able to come up with for getting some kind of snapshot of how [...]

When GG was little I would take a small bite of her food and a sip of her drink before I gave her any of it. I had this fear that something would be wrong with the food I was feeding her and she would just eat it because I was feeding it to her, [...]

Yesterday’s post brought some comments that showed me people don’t really know much about ethanol. So, here goes an explanation. First, understand that if you google something and read it then most likely it is coming from an ethanol company or corn grower (pro ethanol), or from an environmental group (usually anti ethanol), or a [...]

I heard a report yesterday that said as gas prices go up less gas is being purchased. For our family, I don’t think we have that choice. RK and I go to work during the week, and we go to Chinese class on the weekend. We incorporate any shopping we need to do into trips [...]