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Parenting Concepts that Work 1 from Focus On the Family Here’s a podcast I’m listening to now. What I’m looking for in this podcast is how to be a better father, husband and leader. I am no authority on parenting, but the people at Focus On the Family have a better grasp of it than I do. So I am going share the podcast links to this series to hopefully help others who wish to be better too.

Denise and I, mostly Denise, are packing things up as we get ready for our move about 150 meters down the street into our friends’ house. They, Kazuko and Yasu, are moving to Okayama. It will be strange not living in this apartment we have spent most of our Japan-lives in. 12 years in this place! What will be even stranger is moving into our friends’ home where we have spent much of our lives also. We are looking forward to this move though. Mia and Noah will have their own rooms, desks to do homework and a toilet upstairs. Denise and I will have a room to ourselves, too. Because it is a...

Verizon, a company that boasts the new 4G network, has experienced 3 outages in the past month causing users to be without mobile services. The cause for the outages has not been made publicly known. One possible cause, however, may be

Today, Noah has chosen to clean instead of practice baseball. He didn’t want to go to baseball practice today because he didn’t want to run. Or at least that was his reason for not wanting to go. So I gave him a choice. He could either go to baseball and tell his coach his back was sore and that he didn’t want to run or he could stay home and clean; and clean like he has never cleaned before. He has already washed the car and wheels and dried it. Plus, he had to take everything out to clean it and put it away and clean up afterwards. Now, he is in the middle of cleaning the windows of...