Jan 31
I have been spending too much a little bit of spare time on Pinterest. If you’re not familiar with it, it is essentially a virtual bulletin board, where you can create different boards for different things (recipes, vacation ideas, crafts…. whatever you’d like) and then “pin” the photos for various links you want to …
Jan 30
Thanks to all who entered, and a big thank you to Handmade by Tara for making the giveaway possible! The winning entry was: Doug January 25, 2012 at 4:30 PM (Edit) I would totally rock this! Okay, I’d probably give it to my beautiful wife to wear which I know she would LOVE!! Congratulations Doug …
Jan 25
This is really cool! I love recycled things, and I love necklaces. So when my good friend Tara of Handmade By Tara told me she’d recently gotten some recycled paper pendants, and was going to start offering them for sale… we both thought, “Giveaway!” What a perfect way to introduce them. They are exactly what …
Jan 22
A couple of weeks ago, someone wrote on an online forum that she liked the idea of homeschooling, but that she would never do it. Why? She couldn’t handle the possibility of her children becoming “social misfits.” Because, you know, kids need to go to school to get properly socialized. I have wanted to write …
Jan 15
I don’t pay too much attention to anti-unschooling articles. For one thing, unschoolers make up a small percentage of homeschoolers, which are already just a tiny (but growing) fraction of the general population. It’s not for everyone. It’s not for most people. I get that. It’s also difficult for a lot of people to …
Jan 11
I turned 38 yesterday. I am enjoying getting older, but I especially love the realization every year that I am just a little bit (or a lot) more authentically ME than I was the year before. For someone who floated through her teens and much of her twenties with nary an opinion in her head, …
Jan 09
Did you know what you wanted to do with your life when you were eleven? I did. I wanted to be a writer. Sure, there were moments growing up that I also wanted to be (in no particular order): an Olympic gymnast, a hair stylist, a scientist, and a psychologist. But the one constant, the …
Jan 06
I have been sitting on this post for two days now, and while I’ve certainly held onto posts for longer than that, this time I just can’t stay silent any longer. I feel sick to my stomach about this. ‘Human Barbie’ Sarah Burge Gives 7-Year-Old Daughter Breast Implant Voucher Now, setting aside any moral or …
Jan 04
Do you ever have one of those days that just starts off-kilter, and the harder you try to make things right, the worse it gets? The kind of day where one little thing sets off a chain reaction of ick, and even though you know you could stop it if you really wanted to, you …
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