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The Importance of Learning History
Thanks to Tim at Random Observations for alerting me to this interesting commentary on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath...
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Two Car Talk Puzzlers
On rare occasions I have the opportunity to hear National Public Radio's Car Talk program, which I find amusing as well as...
McDonald's
I'm behind with the blog and have lots of interesting adventures to write about, but I was encouraged not to let that get in the way of...
Math Education in the News
Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slice s is a New York Times article about research at Ohio State University that may...
Who Says Blogging Doesn't Pay?
Okay, so it may not generate any cash income, but my status as a blogger has earned me a free, one-year subscription to the...
Cousin Aaron, the Polygamist
With polygamy in the news these days, it seems a good time to report on my discovery of one of our stranger cousins. Fourth cousin...
Who Will Speak Up when They Come for You?
It's easy to dismiss the Yearning for Zion Ranch as a collection of kooks, but even kooks have rights in this country, or should....
Wise as Serpents: Home Birth
Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer story about Diane Goslin is a good summary of, or introduction to, Pennsylavnia's home birth...
Another Article on Teaching Mathematics (or Not)
The Story of an Experiment is another interesting story from Perla ( see previous post ), which she posted to support her...
Brief Thoughts on Teaching Math
I can hardly count Perla Adams my friend, since we met online and I only visit her blog occasionally. It's in my feedreader, but...
High Tide in Tucson
High Tide in Tucson , by Barbara Kingsolver. (HarperCollins, 1995) My sister-in-law gave me this book about a year...
Finance 101, and a Biblical Lesson Forgotten
Is it any wonder Americans are such poor money managers when you look at the behavior of our government? Or should I perhaps say that...
Double Date in Italy – well, almost (March 29th, 2008)
After months of scheduling problems, the moment for our double date with Valda and Richard to the Italian part of Switzerland...
I'm Alive
When it rains it pours. There is much adventure to write about: performances, parties, activities, dates. I've been kept so...
He Only Said What So Many Believe
It's true that Barack Obama scares me. He has so much charisma that I'm afraid an Obama presidency would actually succeed in...
Intelligent Certainty
I don't agree with John Stackhouse on everything—no surprise to those who know me; I'm not sure I even agree wtih myself on...
A Story by Jonathan
As dictated, unedited, while Mom, Dad, and Noah were napping. There was a bear. And then he started hunting. ...
We're Goin' to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo...
That's what we did this morning. We arrived at the Pittsburgh Zoo with a crab and left with a jellyfish, but in between Jonathan...
Who Was that Masked Webmaster?
Ideology, Liberalism, and Law
John C. Wright is one of the latest entries in my feedreader, and frankly I've forgotten whom to credit and am too busy/lazy to try to...
Every Writer's Dream
Isamu Fukui doesn't make lemonade out of life's lemons, he makes the whole lemonade factory. As a fifteen year old high school...
SAT Question of the Day
My morning routine often includes the SAT Question of the Day ; the mental exercise is not only fun (at least when your future...
Because One of You Is Male, and the Other Is Female
Not a proper post today, but I must keep my readers checking in. :) A post on Random Observations led me to this Boston...
Traveling with Small Children, 1780's Style
Our newly-found Smith Genealogy manuscript, which I mentioned in a previous post , is proving a treasure not only of facts but of...
Learning New Words
My teacher readers have permission to roll their eyes now, but I've finally figured out the reason for those stupid vocabulary...