What is the Value of our Education?

What exactly IS the value of our education? Well, the answer is a definite, “It depends…” It depends on what you do with the information. It depends on whether what you learned is relative to what you’re doing. It depends on if you set an...

Teaching bassackwards. Financial Literacy should be the LEAD

Just a thought… What if our kids learned about math in school from their financial literacy classes? What if our kids learned about writing by preparing amazing business plans that could actually be funded and turned into real businesses to set the kids on...

Fourth of July – Let Freedom Reign

The month of July for most American’s conjures up images of loud, flashy fireworks, friendly back yard BBQs and the thrilling sound of our national anthem, “Our country ’tis of these, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.” America was built on...

What exactly is a ‘down economy’?

I find the over generalizations of life interesting. Yesterday I had a table at a local festival we have here in Santa Barbara called Summer Solstice. It’s a huge parade and park festival where ‘they’ (the infamous people that say those things) say...

Setting an Example

Here’s an idea I’d like us all to start chewing on: One of the main reasons our society has gotten itself into such debt is that we have allowed our government to get into tremendous debt with almost no visible ramifications. Now what I mean by that is...