by Jason Dykstra | Apr 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Perhaps this rings a bell: you’re in a difficult class, your teacher or prof is explaining something really complex, and you are about ready to completely give up having any chance of understanding it. And then she says those magic words, “That was a lot...
by Jason Dykstra | Mar 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Or in my son’s case, sacrificing the tree for the branch! He has this little quirk that my wife and I have noticed in him from even his earliest days: An inexplicable antagonism toward trees. He’s not afraid of them, and he’s never had a bad...
by Jason Dykstra | Feb 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Well, it took 30 years, but I’ve finally witnessed a fully functioning Mousetrap board game! We had about 2/3 of one when I was a kid, and try my best, I couldn’t figure out what the missing pieces were or did. This was maddening, as I just knew the mouse...
by Jason Dykstra | Jan 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s a mixed blessing. At a certain point in child development—and I suspect that no parent escapes this—your adorable tot will start giving you the play-by-play of every event that occurs. Not by reporting them like a supercharged sportscaster, but rather by...
by Jason Dykstra | Nov 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are many people who believe we must choose between logic and faith, that atheism is a sign of objective thought while theism is a sign of subjective belief. To their credit, they rightly point out that appealing to sacred texts or subjective experiences to...
by Jason Dykstra | Nov 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
We’ve all been hoodwinked at one time or another, whether by getting tricked instead of treated on Halloween, by a salesperson who misrepresented a product in way we wanted to hear, or by a politician who employed persuasive promises that weren’t so...
