Jack's House

Adding my congratulations to everyone else's.
Having read your short stories I have long thought you could write a great novel. I hope that it is available to purchase (and read ) soon.

I was lucky about learning to cook.  When I was in high school, my mom was working full time and going to law school at night.  She just didn't have time to do everything, so she had my younger sister and I take over the grocery shopping and cooking diner.  I learned a lot then, about budgeting, about planning, and about cooking.  Mom was always available for advice, but my sister and I needed to do it all.  I grumbled a little at the time, but looking back, it was a great learning experience for me.

Its great that you are teaching your boys at least the basics of cooking.  There are a lot of men that can't do more than cook a steak on a grill.

Without getting to deep into politics, I have been thinking about asking what the people living in Texas think is going to happen to Cruz in November.  The national media that I have been watching says that he is in deep trouble, but I don't know how much salt to take with that .  Do the people in Texas think he is in trouble, or is this the media trying to create a story to get more viewers?

P.S., I haven't asked before this, because I don't want to start a discussion about WHO should be elected.  I am trying to see what the local predictions are for the election, not debate about the candidates.

As we close in on the end of the year, the weather's nicer, the students are getting excited, but working harder to stay out of trouble (or able to burn off steam outside), and Mr. P is gone less often.  Yesterday, however, turned into a real mess, and I got involved.

There was a situation with a senior boy and his girl friend, which had parents of both kids called in, and involved most of the office staff, with threats of the police being called.  I also got involved in that, but was called on to handle a different issue while everyone else was tied up.  I left before the situation was ultimately resolved, so I'm not going to discuss it right now.

Has the situation been resolved, and can you tell us about it?

I am not sure that the boys could read them themselves, but the Zanth books by Philip Antony are full of fun puns that young kids love.

Just like in the BOTDs, I am going to agree with everyone 

The one thing I would suggest is that since you are hosting the forum on your site, it might be easier to have it link to pages on your site.  So I would suggest that you have some of the "list" topics as pages on your site, and the forum link to them.  I think it would be easier to create the format you like in html than in the forum markup language.  Like others I would love to see lists of the boys and their ages.  And a while back you previewed some static pages for bios that I thought were very good.  And like Leti I really enjoyed Anecdotes, so hope it survives the changes.