Redneck Swimming Pool
I have often wondered if I would have liked Tucson better if we had bought a house with a pool at the start. I was always worried about Ben, and later, Maya, drowning in a pool so I adamantly refused to even look at properties that had pools when we first moved here. [...]
American “Karate,” or Karate-Themed Entertainment for Kids
Today we went to our very first “karate” tournament here in the U.S. I put “karate” in quotes because, well, it just simply isn’t karate — at least not any karate I ever learned living 20 km north of Okinawa, birthplace of the art. If I cringed the first time the instructor mentioned how karate [...]
Redneck Christmas Tree
A friend of mine recently sent me these pictures and, having seen just how much a real Christmas tree costs (our fake one died last year) I’m actually kind of tempted. Would red Dr. Pepper cans work as well? I guess I need some wire and a glue gun.
Seriously, though, this year I [...]