Archive for May, 2006

Today is the National Day of Reason, an alternative to the National Day of Prayer. Read more at their web site.

I’ve decided to come clean with my latest guilty pleasure. Thanks to the Disney Channel movie High School Musical, I can’t stop singing “getcha-getcha-getcha-getcha head in the game,” and I have a crush on an 18 year old boy. If Zac Efron was around when I was 12, surely my Shaun Cassidy posters would have [...]

Over at The Homeschool Cafe, Alasandra wrote about her search for a history book “that actually teaches history and not some sanitized feel good fairy tale.”
Such history textbooks are harder and harder to find these days. There are countless examples of religious and ethnic groups demanding that historical accounts be softened and even completely altered [...]

(Alternate title: Why I Totally Hate the Pool Company)
I love this time of year - getting out patio furniture, cleaning up leaves, planting flowers, mulching, and opening the pool. After a few weeks, I’m completely done with the gardening and property maintenance crap, but when those first warm days appear and the earth greens up, [...]