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Homeschooling for the Rest of Us
Homeschooling for the Rest of Us: How Your One-of-a-Kind Family Can Make Homeschooling and Real Life Work , by Sonya Haskins...
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Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Concert - Hal France Returns
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Mozart: Concerto No. 1 for...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Walt Disney Pictures, 2003, PG-13) I realize I'm seven years...
Who Do You Think You Are?
I had to watch it, since my genealogical organizations, websites, and contacts kept bringing it to my attention: NBC's new...
Artisanal Pianos
Beer, bread, cheese...and now musical instruments. Jan Swafford's recent Slate article, In Search of Lost Sounds ,...
Saint Patrick (the Book)
Saint Patrick , by Jonathan Rogers (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2010) This new biography of the man whose feast day we...
IT'S A . . .
. . . Baby! Just one, and "es" is alive and kicking. "Es" let us see many details in the ultra sound,...
Three Cups of Tea
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time , by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin...
Nobody Knows What Childbirth is Like and How To Get Rich...
My attempt to imbed a video: Video Link In this TED talk by behavior economist Daniel Kahneman there is a...
Our Baby For Real
Yesterday we took some belly pictures and this was hubby's choice for the blog. I don't stay in this position always, but I do...
National Treasure
National Treasure (Walt Disney Pictures, 2004, PG) I may have discovered the secret of enjoying movies: low...
Kicking!
Yesterday Daddy got to feel baby kick for the first time! I've been feeling baby's excercises for a number of weeks, but up until...
Pssst! Wanna Buy an Essay?
What drives spam? Money, obviously. And sin. Sin on both ends: the sin of greed on the part of the spammer,...
Blogging Mistakes?
Someone else posted an enthusiastic link to Michael Hyatt's Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog? That I am not so...
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year , by Daniel Defoe (New American Library, New York, 1960) I first read this as a requirement for...
Our New Baby!
We’d been thinking about it for quite some time, but we finally acted and we couldn’t be happier. Take a look at...
Jamie Oliver and Food
Jamie Oliver , a British chef, is apparently a big hit in Europe. (Perhaps here, too; that I had never heard of him doesn't mean...
The University of Rochester's WeBWork
This article about the mathematics department at the University of Rochester credits much of their recent success to an online...
Just Courage
Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian , by Gary Haugen (InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois,...
Weapons of Mass Instruction
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling , by John Taylor Gatto...
A Flock of Robins
We don't see robins much at all here, but when we do, they are a lmost always in flocks . Having grown up with the excitement of...
That's Our Family!
This is SO typical of our wonderfully nerdy family that I had to share Jon's birthday cake here.
The Selfless Gene
The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin , by Charles Foster (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 2009) Charles Foster...
New Year's Resolution #2 - Rediscover Feasting
Having made my first New Year's resolution on January 8, it is fitting that I add my second today. At first glance, resolving...
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals , by Michael Pollan (Penguin, New York, 2006) My limited...