It's been almost a year and a half since my last post. In that time, I've moved to the country, started homeschooling, and had another baby. My great-aunt and my grandfather died, and I officially became a political Independent. I'm worried about my country, but on a personal level, I feel great and I love my life ( Read more... )

This was my husband's birthday present to me!

Some people just never forget your old obsessions. Note the url too!

Cobbler took his first steps today!

Found on MarketWatch.com:Strength is irrelevant. We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your financial indebtedness to our own. Your fiscal irresponsibility will adapt to service our long term obligations. Your currency will be assimilated into our own fiat paper, and like an infestation we will spread. Unified with our worthless paper we shall ( Read more... )

My laugh for the day: High schooler writes short story (for English class!) about a school being overrun by zombies; gets arrested and charged with making terrorist threats.

...to me, anyway. I have Internet for the first time since the day after Hurricane Gustav. Go figure that one out. (I think Cox was replacing equipment or something ( Read more... )

We arrived back in New Orleans today. Our house is fine; everyone we know is safe, and nobody lost anything important to Hurricane Gustav ( Read more... )

I haven't had time to post our good news: Husband's job has finally arrived in its new location on the north shore, and so yesterday we went out and bought a cute little mobile home. A friend of ours is letting us put it on some unused land he has near where we want to live. We'll live in it for a year, or perhaps two, while negotiating to buy a ( Read more... )

My latest read was Do Hard Things: A teenage rebellion against low expectations by Alex and Brett Harris. The authors are twin brothers, currently 19 years old. The book grew out of concepts they began to explore on their blog, www.TheRebelution.com, four years ago. Their main point is that adolescence--the teenage years--is the time when people ( Read more... )

This is one of those articles that I want to keep and read again. It's one that I think everyone should read from time to time.

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
- Abraham Lincoln

After Energy Independence, Then What?By Robert Ringer ( Read more... )