I have been doing a bit of reading recently about the internet, communities and the concept of virtual communities which develop over time. The internet seems to offer an incredible ability for us to connect regardless of geographical boundaries. To find information on a broad range of topics and often to find first hand accounts [...]
Every year, Christmas seems to be thrust into the center of the culture wars as businesses determine how to promote their goods to us and we decide just how upset we are at being wished a Happy Holiday. My concerns began with an email alert I received from the American Family Association regarding the lack [...]
Or is Twitter the beast?
For those unfamiliar with Twitter, the number sign is a hash tag used to label “tweets” (mini-posts) similar to Technorati or WordPress tags in blogs. As you can see from this chart from Twist, the topic du jour for Sunday was motrinmoms.
In fact, at 8:50 Saturday evening, there wasn’t a single [...]
There has been quite a bit of buzz recently about Nebraska’s safe haven laws, intended to give a safe place for distraught mothers to drop off their unwanted infants. These laws are gaining in popularity as people are increasingly horrified at the occasional stories of infants left to die in dumpsters or other unseemly places, [...]
An interesting story popped up in my Google alert for homeschool, although it has nothing to do with homeschooling. Still, it is an interesting look at the difficulties experienced by some immigrant communities and raises a lot of questions for me regarding the whole assimilation process, how immigrant families are instructed in American values and [...]
This has nothing to do with homeschooling, but nausea and apathy have pretty much killed my motivation to tackle the task I set before myself this evening…and that is only in part due to pregnancy. Thanks to COD for this little article which displays both the worst and best of the human spirit: The girl [...]
Cocking a Snook asks an interesting question that I started to answer in her comment box: What can Homeschooling Learn from Our Present Political Stories? It started with some musing about how Ron Paul seemed to unite extremists on both the left and right behind him over on Spunky’s post NEA endorses Obama. [...]
Thanks to not having a television, the first I heard of the mall shooting in Omaha yesterday was through an email from another blogger I opened this morning.
Dana, you’re ok down in there in Nebraska I hope?
It was an odd subject line and not how his emails usually begin. Nine dead in a shopping [...]
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