The Truth As I Experience It

Can I fix my own Prius battery? (Yes, but be smart and careful as you do it) This is the question I asked myself when the repair shop said it would cost $1800 to $2800 to have them replace it. But let's back up a bit. Somewhere around 11-01-18, on the dashboard of my 2007 Prius, the  check engine  light came on, followed by the  VSC warning light,  then the dreaded  "red triangle of death"  (as I call it) with a beautiful grand finally of the  red caution symbol  on the center console display. It was a progressive light show that grew one after another over a series of maybe a couple days. It felt like a small success because pretty much every light that could come on, was on. To help you understand my next steps, you need to know that I bought my Prius used from a taxi cab company 4 years ago in Las Vegas and it has over 560,000 miles on it. So warning lights are no stranger to me and sometimes they just go away after a bit and we move o...

Being raised in a  Unity youth program means that I am very passionate about the spiritual enrichment of today's children. Lately I have been talking with my fellow ministers about the obvious decline of adult church attendance, but even more importantly the maybe less obvious decline of youth attendance. As we put our heads together, trying to come up with reasons why youth attendance is down, we see a couple patterns unfolding. Obviously less children attend when less parents attend, but even those parents who are attending still don't bring their children to the youth experience. This points to a very obvious problem that modern parents don't see value in a church youth program. If they don't recognize the value, there is no way they will be able to push past their child's initial resistance to trying something new, like Sunday school. This is a real problem. As I was pondering this issue, I stumbled upon this article from the BBC, about how much tim...