A Professional (And Not So Professional) Blog by Curtis W. Smith

Monkey Go Happy!

This morning my daughter showed me a great online game for kids (K-4 range) and I thought I’d share a very quick review. Actually, my daughter finds this and other games through a site called PrimaryGames so that site will get first mention here. Primarygames is a great site for playing free games for kids [...]

Don’t Be Your Own Roadblock

Using my psychic powers (like the ones Dionne Warwick’s friends claimed to have) I will guess your reaction(s) to the title: 1. “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah I’ve heard that before.” and/or 2. “That’s easier said than done.” If so then we both are absolutely correct (and I am going to explore a new career field)! There [...]

Chasing Mr. Squiggles

Black Friday 12am On the way home from a big Thanksgiving dinner with family I decided it would be fun to stop by the nearest Toys R Us and participate in some Black Friday midnight madness. My daughter has been wanting a Zhu Zhu pet for quite some time. We were going to be passing [...]

View of the line when I arrived at Toys R Us

Exercising for Others

When you run or bike long distances like I do unless you are extremely fast you have plenty of time to think. My thoughts typically wander from “Why am I out here in this lousy weather” to what the future holds for my daughter and in what ways things could be made better her generation. [...]

Be Like Mikey and Nike

Remember Mikey , the little boy from the Life cereal commercials that hated everything? With a little prodding from his brothers he finally tried the cereal and didn’t like it….he LOVED it. As commercials throughout the years would show his love for the cereal kept going. The moral of this story was that if you [...]