Flada Blog

In 2003, I left one of my favorite jobs that I’d ever had in Illinois to move with my new wife to Virginia. She had joined the Navy, so she didn’t have much choice about where she was going to be. To save our relationship and build our future, leaving that company was […]

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I am going to start a new feature where I write about some of my favorite sites that I have found during the week. These may not necessarily be new posts or pages, but they are new to me. This is volume one.
There have been ongoing discussions on my blog notes about several […]

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My Dreams
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? For me, it was a doctor. Actually for a brief time, I wanted to be a worm doctor, whatever that is, but mostly I wanted to be a medical doctor. Then again, to a 5 year […]

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My father was a great man. Actually, he still is as far as I know. I learned a lot of invaluable lessons from him and from my mother.
To this day, a full 20 years after moving out of his home, I am certain that I could survive pretty well in almost any environment […]

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My friend Obsteve has been encouraging me for more than a few weeks to elaborate on my previous post, 5 Reasons Why You Should Homeschool:
Hi Ed, I still believe that this article is misleading, both about teachers and about teaching.Essentially, I feel that 5 different reasons to homeschool could and should be proffered; I do […]

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