Celebrating Cats
Happy Birthday Tobi and Kaitlyn!! They are 5 years old now. Actually, I’m a little belated today — their birthday was Monday the 12th. Here’s …
Capitalism Cartoons
An enjoyable video introduction to what capitalism is can be found in the 1948 cartoons “Make Mine Freedom” and “Going Places,” both found at the …
Take Two: Another Homeschooling and Self-Education “Blog Carnival”
Hot on the heals of yesterday’s carnival comes — whether you’ve caught up on your reading from yesterday or not — the Carnival of Homeschooling, …
Happy Birthday, Horatio Alger
Picture from Washburn University. Horatio Alger, Jr. was born on January 13, 1832. I have not read any of his stories; this is a missing …
A Homeschooling and Self-Education “Blog Carnival”
If you homeschool your children, educate your self, or enrich your children’s schooling, you might find some useful information and good reading at today’s “Homeschool …
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all …
Theodore Roosevelt: A Quote
A popular quote of Roosevelt’s is: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or …
“The Astronomer by Candlelight” by Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)
Picture from the Art Renewal Center. So what does the painting mean? What is its message? What story does it tell? It is thought to …
The Moon!
Robert Roy Britt, over at Space.com, says in Saturday Night Special: If skies are clear Saturday, go out at sunset and look for the giant …
Nutrition and Education: A Link? Post 2
Another “for what it’s worth” — i.e., I report, you decide. Writing about “bipolar disorder” (related to education in so far as its a behaviorial …