Blogs
For those of you new to the internet, a "blog" is short for "web log" and is used in many ways, but most often as an online journal of sorts. Here you can see the blogs that Chris and Alyssa keep. They'll show our lastest thoughts and happenings in our lives.
Chris's Blogs
- mental aquarium - A blog about the recent news, happenings, and fun thoughts Chris has had.
- Jun 26th - Hawkeye: - While at the recent family reunion in Idaho, I went for a walk along the grounds of the lodge we were staying at. I heard a loud, screeching call and looked up to see a hawk circling me. It...
- Jun 26th - The Ants Go Marching: - Fortunately, the ants are only marching one-by-one at this point, but it's still not something we want to say "Hurrah! Hurrah!" about. We found the ant in the picture crawling through our house...
- Jun 7th - Games, Games and More Games, Part 3: - The latest in a series (see part 1 and part 2) describing the games that we've purchased. Citadels We first played Citadels with the Madsens. The Gist of the Game - Players pay to build...
- Deeper into the Mist - A blog exploring some of Chris's more serious thoughts and ponderings.
- Sep 7th - The God Delusion: - I recently listened to the book The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. To tell the truth, I was a little worried about listening to a book dedicated to atheism--in fact within the first chapter the...
- Aug 5th - The Different Types of Environmentalists: - What does it mean to be an Environmentalist? I've considered myself to be an Environmentalist for a long time, without really stopping to think about what that word meant. Environmentalism has been...
- Jul 8th - Origin of Species vs. Of Pandas and People: - I listened to The Origin of Species on my mp3 player, then checked out Of Pandas and People. It seemed hypocritical that I talk a lot about Evolution vs. Creationism when I hadn't even read the...
Alyssa's Blog
- Sounding My Barbaric Yawp Across the Rooftops - Alyssa's blog about her life and thoughts.
- Jul 1st - Twitter: Hot... Blogging: Not: - That's how I personally feel right now, anyway. I'm just having a hard time coming up with anything interesting to say that could fill a whole blog---which is why my usual weekly entries have been so...
- Jun 24th - Put Down the Credit Card and No One Will Get Hurt: - As a good liberal, I pride myself on being an anti-consumerist. It's fairly easy to do since I strongly dislike shopping. (Maybe I should just go ahead and say that I hate shopping. After all, part...
- Jun 17th - College Level Writing: My Teaching Philosophy: - I'm warning you that this blog entry is going to be pretty boring. I wrote out my teaching philosophy this week because I was interviewing to be a writing instructor at UVSC. This document was also...
Ethan's Blog
- The Sandbox - A blog about what's going on with the Rock kids.
- Jul 5th - Walking Man: - Ethan's been taking a few steps on his own lately! Take a look at a few videos of him standing on his own and walking a little. Ethan also loves to go to our neighbors and play with their two...
- Jun 15th - Ethan 1.2 - The "Happy Father's Day" Edition: - Dear Ethan, Well, we've been trying to teach you sign language since you were 6 months old with only moderate success... Until now! This month your use of sign language increased dramatically....
- May 14th - Ethan 1.1 - The "License to Pig Out" Edition: - Dear Ethan, This month started off with a little bit of a scare when we took you in for your 12 month checkup. When the nurse put you on the scale and told us that you only weighed a little more...