This expands on one element of a new paradigm for education in the US. For an overview, see Schoolhoming on InBLOGnito. [I refer to due diligence and research and interviews throughout this; myself and some like-minded friends are working to collect actual data to design a better educational system. The…

After a lifetime career of serving the United States overseas as a federal employee and the spouse of a federal employee Foreign Service Officer, I’ve lived through fatal pandemics, lockdowns, and years of nothing on grocery store shelves. My family made it through, and you can too. …

Within the last couple days, both my closest friend and my closest (well, only) sister asked me about weighted blankets. To my friend, I wrote “Adult swaddling!! how have we not talked about this” but to my sister I wrote a more detailed response to her more detailed question. She…

Data science mecca 538 took on Dungeons and Dragons character generation last week, but their write-up didn’t align (no pun intended) with our years of empirical observation. We checked their numbers and determined that their thesis is totally wrong. As the 538 blog reports, in August, D&D’s publisher released D&D…