This past weekend, my parents celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. This is an amazing milestone, especially because it has been so strong and stable over the years. They managed to raise five kids, while still maintaining an identity for themselves. Both of my parents held the delicate balance between home life and work as we [...]
Friday, I showed off the outside. Today I’ll give you a few photos of the inside. Here is our living room. While Michelle isn’t super hot on the green, I love the contrast with the red wall. The kitchen is fantastic. Good space, nice appliances, and plenty of light. An actual dining room. A first [...]
I am still dealing with the aftermath of buying a house. To hold you over until a real post goes up, here is a video of a kitty.
Instead of writing an interesting or elaborate post for today, I spent yesterday buying a house. So you’ll get pretty pictures of it, and you’ll like it. The front is relatively unassuming. A nice story & half cape cod. The back of the house has a beautiful wooden deck, with a nicely detailed trellis. Everyone wave [...]
The other day I discussed authoritative morality. As I stated in that post, authoritative morality is dictated by an authority figure and the receiver is expected to accept and obey without question. Today we address another problem with this model of morality: personal responsibility. Authoritative morality dictates absolute rules to follow. By its nature, there is [...]
The context of this post defines morality as the actions that individuals and/or groups actively work to encourage or discourage in themselves and others. This encompasses a greater range of actions than is traditionally thought of as morality. This allows us to better understand and discussion the impact on the totality of human experience. In American society [...]