Monthly Archives: October 2006

The Beauty of Ancestors

Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Beauty topic, The Beauty of Ancestors. There are only a few entries and I encourage you to read them all.
Everything has an ancestry and a history. Even our ideas have an ancestry and their development and propogation can be traced through philosophers and kings through centuries. [...]

"Through Difficulties"

Family ancestry is an interesting thing. A good deal of the bible is concerned with recording geneologies, all chronicling the human ancestry of Jesus Christ. His ancestry seems to cover all social classes and walks of life. Many people find the study of geneology intriguing and spend hours researching old documents to [...]

Request for submissions for carnival: The Beauty of Our Ancestors

On October 18, I will be hosting the Carnival of Beauty with the very exciting theme of “The Beauty of Our Ancestors.” I’m going to be out of town for a bit, but will be back in time to put it together. That gives you a little while to plan a good entry [...]

A glimpse at baby…isn’t s/he adorable!

We are now at ten weeks and got to see the first glimpse of Baby. This one certainly is active! It won’t be long until the little tacker won’t have much room, anymore, so I guess s/he should take advantage of it now. Then s/he’ll have gravity to contend with. The [...]

$700 in prizes and some links

First off, because everyone likes a chance at $700 in free products, check out Life in a Shoe’s contest. $700 in free stuff for guessing how many items are in Vision Forum’s new catalogue. Does anyone know (and want to tell me) how much was in their last one? My husband discards [...]

Help Scientists Study Local Bird Populations

Project FeederWatch is a program of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. This program is for anyone who enjoys watching birds come to their feeder and would be willing to set aside some time to identify and count birds in their backyards and report them to Cornell for scientists to use in gathering data about [...]

National Standards, Testing and Curriculum

We have had national standards in academic subject areas for a long time. I knew the national standards for foreign language back when I was in college over ten years ago, and became familiar with the others while teaching in Texas. We are on our way to a national test, reportedly to minimize [...]

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