An Hour A Week? Podcast

I’m still getting ready for the Pinewood Derby this weekend, but just had the wind knocked out of my sails by someone. Since I’m new to blogging, I’m not sure who is reading this (if anyone) and don’t want to mention specifics about what happened.
I think I’ll work on some freelance jobs tonight, maybe not […]

Yesterday was a lot of fun; we had a few “Leader Meetings” during our Pinewood Derby trial run and picked up a new Den Leader! It seems like such an easy concept-just ask for help and people will help. No cars were damaged and the track is still in one piece. We’re just about ready […]

Tomorrow we’re having the trial run for our Pinewood Derby, where everyone comes over to my house and makes sure their cars are within spec. I’m actually looking forward to it; I get a lot of energy from being around the other Scouts and their parents. We’ll see if I still feel that way tomorrow […]

Boy Scouts of America Recognizes National Mentoring Month
As part of its ongoing efforts to do a Good Turn for America, the Boy Scouts of America, the nation’s leading youth organization, is recognizing January 2005 as National Mentoring Month.
Get out and do what you can to help inspire young people. They’re going to look up to […]

Last night we tested our Pinewood Derby track. We do it every year to make sure we have all of the screws, the wires for the timer are all there, stuff like that.
So a couple of the Den Leaders come by and we open the box for the track-and the wires to the starting gate […]

I’ve let the weblog turn into a retelling of new stories from other sites, which was not my intention at all. So let’s try this again, from the top…

KRT Wire | 01/10/2005 | Interned Japanese-Americans embraced Scouting
An old flag stored for decades in a suitcase under someone’s bed. A stash of books, their spines barely creased, rescued from a classroom at a San Francisco Buddhist church. Combined, these items tell the story of a little known part of American history: how Japanese-Americans segregated […]