My Own Thoughts

Immature cells from testicles Lab grown bladder sacs from patient’s own bladder cells This is in the news. I’m thrilled to know about it. One of my students in their papers turned in Tuesday said, One of the most important things that therapeutic cloning (from embryos) can do is give bald men back their hair. [...]

(on the right things.) “They (her fellow students) spend their school lives being given all the answers and not being challenged to seek out different ones. They don’t know how to consider other possibilities, and that should be one of the main things we “learn” in education.” said The Head Girl at The Common Room. [...]

Ticklish Ears has a post about textbooks both at college and in their homeschool. But what set me onto this post was his taking his daughter off the restrictive readers that came with a curriculum and leading her to the world of biographies. I went to write a comment, but it turned into a post. [...]

How does anyone pick curriculum? There is a veritable treasure house of options out there. Here’s what I did. I started homeschooling many years ago. Hmm. About 1993. Maybe that’s not as long ago as it feels! We started with Kona. I loved the different options of related information. I liked that everything we were [...]

Well, it depends. On if you are a man or a woman. Not because the law is different, but because men are different from women on the issue of what is bothersome. Doubt me? A survey of 50,000 men and women from all economic and social strata were interviewed and asked to note their level [...]

1561 Today in Odd History, an eerie battle raged in the skies above Nuremberg, Germany. It began at dawn, as dozens, if not hundreds, of crosses, globes and tubes fought each other above the city. It ended an hour later, when “the globes in the small and large rods flew into the sun,” and several [...]

Tomorrow, Wednesday, morning at 2 minutes and 3 seconds after 1 am, it will be a once in a hundred year time and date sequence. 01:02:03,04/05/06 This cool fact brought to you because Army Wife Toddler Mom told me.

I woke this morning and, not quite awake, I repeated what I had last said in a dream. “I have never been so scared in all my life.” Please note that I have three times almost bled to death, knowing it was happening. Once my husband was ill and the doctors gave up hope for [...]