The tide of change always begins with a trickle of a few nonconformists and then it grows into a veritable flood as increasing numbers of people abandon the convictions of the past. —John Shelby Spong from his book Living In…
Saturday Sleepies
sambear and curiousmay9 are out looking at houses with king_james. I didn’t go, because I’m in too much pain today and would probably have ended up just sitting in the car anyway. I’m curious as to what they saw, though.…
Friday Fun
shadowkatt left her purse at the martial arts studio last night, so I cruelly forced her out of bed to go with me when sambear went to the bus. We’re about halfway to the studio there, so I didn’t want…
It Was a Thursday
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. –Jane Howard
Silence at School
Silence at school has parents talking Explain to me again why people ask homeschoolers about how our kids will ever develop social skills? And is sign language allowed?
Little Shop of Physics
shunra, you were looking for physics stuff, right? Little Shop of Physics BTW, I think you’d really like the TAGMAX mailing list.
Miscellany
Looky! CYLearning.org CyLearning.Org is a website dedicated to gathering in one place all the materials, links, and references that can be used to home school students using Palm handhelds with a cybernetic theory of learning approach. We watched X-2, which…
Monday Evening
shadowkatt went to see Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with a group of teens today, including new friend C (distinct from old friend C, and now I realize that I need use-names for both girls). They…
Party!
sambear is throwing a birthday party for me tonight! If you didn’t get an invitation and want one, contact him. 🙂 It feels rather odd to say that, even. I can’t remember my last birthday party. Birthdays have pretty much…
Demographics Are Not Community
I wrote a long post about community to a homeschooling list in response to a discussion about “feral” children some of us have encountered, and nobody responded. That always upsets me. So I’m going to inflict the damned thing on…