I ran across this interesting list at Real World Martha. I am not a sports fan, and neither is my husband (you could say he is nearly anti-sports), but I thought this list was worth mentioning in light of the recent Super Bowl. Here's a (slightly adapted) list of the many things football players and [...]
Planning Our Curriculum for 2008-2009
I've been cleaning off my bookshelves, selling dozens of un-needed books, all in the process of planning curriculum for next year. I do still have some decisions to make about Jaden's math, but that can wait a while longer. So here's our (tentative) curriculum plan for next year (and of course, everything's still subject to [...]
HAA (Homophone Addicts Anonymous)
It's a strange story—revealing how truly weird my father and I are—but it's worth telling. More than 20 years ago, some time in the mid-1980s, I stayed home sick from school. My father happened to be sick that day as well, so both of us found ourselves bored to tears, desperately searching for something to [...]

















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