Habits Update

So Barbie, you ask, how is that walking going? Have you been keeping up on your habit-forming? Have you, indeed, stayed away from your beloved message board???? The answers are: okay, sorta, and YES.
I didn’t walk for awhile, because of one useless excuse after another, but I’m back on board [...]

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Poetry, Birds, Blogs, and Dairy

“How beautiful your feathers be!”
The Redbird sang to the Tulip-tree
New garbed in autumn gold.
“Alas!” the bending branches sighed,
“They cannot like your leaves abide
To keep us from the cold!”
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Comfortably Numb by Charles Barber - A Review

I have just finished reading Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation by Charles Barber. Mr. Barber spent several years as a counselor to the addicted, mentally ill homeless, as well as several more years as a researcher at medical schools. This book is filled with study conclusions, statistics, anecdotal evidence, and [...]

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Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax

Read it. Be prepared for some differences of opinion (evolution, homosexuality). But read it. It is very revealing. I said, “Oh yeah, that’s why I do that.” “Wow, so that’s why he acts like that.” “They are doing that!?! Lord, what can I do???” “Oh, that [...]

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Another Year, New Goals…Sort Of

Last year, I posted this, outlining my goals for the year. I only chose three things to do, believing that it would be very do-able. Sigh.
I did join a book group at the beginning of this school year - it is with other homeschool moms (there are four of us in [...]

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I’m in a carnival!

A TJED (Thomas Jefferson Education) carnival. Hopefully, I won’t be seen as the clown. Lol. I think. Anyway, here’s the carnival address…enjoy the submissions! TJED Blog Carnival

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Another post at the lit. blog

It’s part two of the Laddie essay. Enjoy, and please comment if you have something to say.

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I actually posted at my Literature Blog

Go check out part one of my essay about the book Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter! The link is in my Blogroll sidebar…just click on the image. And please, if you have a comment to make, have read the book and have anything to add to what I’ve said so far, please feel [...]

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Okay, so we aren’t going to be butchering any animals… (From June 2, 2006)

I like to think of myself as a homesteader without a homestead…a farmer’s wife without a farm…a pioneer with no pie. Okay, so that last one is a bit silly. We live in a township outside of a little city that likes to pretend its a big city. Those who [...]

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