Category: Everyday Stories
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The atheists not accepted here standard
I was doing a quick glance through of Georgia QCC standards and came up with the below one which will be interesting to atheists. Quality Core Curriculum Standards Character Education Citizenship (all grades) Strand: Citizenchip 10 Topic: Citizenship Standard: Respect for the creator: our most basic freedoms and rights are not granted to us from…
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H.o.p.’s review of "The Tortoise and the Hare"
H.o.p. has this to say about the Center for Puppetry Art’s production of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. It’s about this ship and it wrecked on an island and a bunch of animals came out of the ship, like a fox and a mouse and a tortoise and a rabbit and a crow with cheese…
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Activities we likely won't be doing that are supposed to help you learn about blood
What we’re using for science right now. We used to do science with me scouring the web for things to feed H.o.p. And he has his Brain Pop that give nice primers on subjects. H.o.p., amazingly enough, has recently discovered that he likes tests. At least the way mom does them. If you look up…
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Total homeschool post – almost – well, never mind
It’s been a while since I’ve checked out homeschool blogging circles but I was in a couple several years ago and eventually dropped out of them as most were indeed homeschooling for religious purposes, and then those that were not tended to be either suburban or nearly rural and very do it yourself kind of…
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Back to the Grand Canyon and supposed sterling silver earrings that do your ears wrong
Ok, this is the kind of thing I like about the internet. Every time I think I hate blogging I find another reason to continue. Like posting serial numbers of stolen equipment (prior post). It might be helpful. Probably not. But perhaps. The other day I made a posting on the earrings we picked up…
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One day an amateur, the next day a pro
So H.o.p. was down at the studio today. Marty has been recording Heston, a Dominican-born, Philadelphia-raised R&B singer. Heston’s little girl was there. A sweet smooth song and there’s a section in it about grade school teasing. Heston wanted a little background of a boy teasing a girl and had tried adults but it didn’t…
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Glad that's clarified
H.o.p.: You’re not so dumb, you’re just kind of confused. Me: Confused. H.o.p.: You know, how people sometimes get confused. Me: What am I confused about? H.o.p.: You know when you thought the T Rex ran wild down the street. I should have made it clear I was just telling a story.
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Climbing trees
One of H.o.p.’s cousins has a tree house, as does PBS’ Arthur, and H.o.p. has decided he wants one. He has just done a sketch of a tree house, “It has an art gallery, there, and a play room.” At first I thought it was only intended to be an imaginary tree house but no,…
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It don’t worry me
Lance Mannion last week compared Kelly’s Heroes and MASH in a post at American Street, Kelly’s Heroes are my Heroes. Which also got some commentary here. I ended up bringing up Nashville and thus got a pointer over to an Altman Blogfest that was occurring this past weekend. I didn’t participate as it’s difficult for…
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Yes, but we knew Wymsey when…
Congratulations to Wymsey! Wymsey made it into the NY Times today, via a cooking article which I’ll publish in full here as it will one day become subscription content. Wymsey is the wonderful absurdist creation of Charles Ivermee, and to find out more about why I’m posting this here, skip to below the article. Take…
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Who Wal-Mart pays and doesn't pay for its good PR
The New York Times runs a report on Wal-Mart eliciting bloggers to paraphrase spoonfed canned PR for Wal-Mart. After all, if one pro-Wal-Mart blogger was caught writing exactly what another one was writing, the public would get suspicious, wouldn’t it? Brian Pickrell of the Iowa Voice blog is one such individual, using his blog “to…
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Entropy Circus, strawberries and popsicles
Earlier was having a very nice time sitting here eating strawberries and listening to Entropy Circus’ The Goats & The Peacock from Open Source Audio. I came across it through doing a search for Caruso. And there was Entropy Circus, because it incorporates Caruso in one of the tracks. I started listening and pretty much…