It isn't voluntary if it's mandatory. Here is a great explanation as to why this won't make our society better. In fact, it will probably make it worse.

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Today it's time for another round of that exciting game! You've all played it! That's right ( Read more... )

This song was stuck in head for two nights in a row while I slept. While I adore The Office, it was torture.

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A while back, there was as spot on the news about homeschooling and TJEd. I'm too lazy to find it and link to it, but the jist of it was that TJEd family HURRY HURRY HURRY through "conventional" schooling to GET IT DONE as fast as possible. I felt like they totally missed the point when they were talking about TJEd. All they wanted to focus on was ( Read more... )

If we are fighting this war to "fight them OVER THERE, so we don't have to fight them here," why do we think it's okay to destroy another nation to create that away-from-home-battlefield to fight our enemies?

Never saw this movie- kind of surprised. Better start using all those kickboxing moves I learned in college.


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Baby Girl Rice came a week earlier than planned (that made her 2 weeks early!) Shortly after I left my Richard Peck writing workshop, I went into labor. (We all know Richard Peck is a master of many things, but who knew he had a labor-inducing affect on pregnant women? He has powers far greater than any of us dreamed ( Read more... )