kids

My son, Ben, is 11 years old. This past Sunday he asked to go to my woodshop with me to watch me turn some pens. As I got my first one of the day done, he had a look on his face that I could tell meant he wanted to try, so when I asked him, he immediately went to the wood pile and picked out a...

First, please allow me to give you a little background. If you want to get right to the meat of this post, please skip ahead a few paragraphs to the one that starts with "The upshot is". As some of you may remember, I lived in Iwate, Japan from 2007-2009. Iwate was hit really hard by the...