Category: Reviews

Near the end of August, I bought my first pair of barefoot/minimalist shoes. I’ll cover the ‘why’ below, but first a few terms to explain first, to help avoid confusion with ‘fake’ minimalist shoes. Zero-drop: heel is non-elevated. Wide toe box: rather than narrowing, the toe area is wider to allow toes to spread naturally. And…

Sometimes unexpected collaborations and reviews are the best. It’s not so much that I’ve been slacking on the site to explain the fact that I haven’t done any reviews since early last year…it’s just that we’ve had quite the year. For those that haven’t been following our journey, check out our daughter’s site. Anyway, back…

For many years, I’ve had other families ask about how they could protect their home networks and filter their internet traffic like we’ve done. There are varied options such as using pia vpn (or other similar others), but the answer was never what we’d hope for. The problem is the method we’d used wasn’t simple,…

Wife had heard some good comments about the show Call the Midwife, so we started watching. We were hooked instantly. First, there’s the topic itself: midwifery. We’ve always been that family that uses midwives and planned for home births or non-hospital births (though all but one kiddo had other plans). But the show is very…

Had the opportunity to review these bars during our time in Seattle with Evanna‘s birth and stay in NICU. I preface the review with that for two reasons: it is long overdue and it was the perfect time for them, since during the NICU stay, I wasn’t exactly on a regular eating schedule. These bars…

My work computer was getting along in years, and while it still ran ok, battery life was majorly deteriorated…and that is a major problem for me as I’m out and about. So with saving up my Amazon affiliate proceeds for a while, I’d accumulated enough to replace it. Considered options over the course of a…

Disclaimer: I received this product for review. However, as always, this did not, and does not, affect my review. It’s not often I’m surprised by a product. But the AcTek Sundock Wireless Bluetooth Speaker did so on a couple of levels. I’d seen similar speakers show up in my Amazon feed before, but sort of…

While the official launch date is tomorrow, March 11th, I was able to pre-order mine…and surprisingly, it arrived 10 days early. So I’ve definitely been using it the past week and a half, so thought I’d share my unsolicited review. I was coming from an S5, and had skipped the S6. And frankly, I was…

This review highlights three four things that I love: hot sauce, local business, businesses that give back, and since my time in the Navy where I served alongside many, the Filipino people. It was a chance meeting, if you believe in that sort of thing. My wife and kids were at a local QFC to raise…

In the next post on the series from Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel we look at the legacy of Dr. King, and what is was about the man and his words that is so starkly different from other civil rights leaders then (and now)? The author makes an argument that he spoke much…