(A piece from the Hyperbolic Crochet Reef at the cultural center. And that’s not even the half of it. As a fledgling crocheter, I was impressed and inspired. The rest of my party was mostly just baffled or amused.)
I’m a sucker for the advent calendar. It is such a steady way to calm the pre-holiday [...]

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I didn’t get up at 4am to go buy stuff. It won’t be hard for me to buy nada today since I am already somewhat broke. But I find the whole concept fascinating. Listened to a story on Democracy Now while we were cooking T-day dinner yesterday about the What Would Jesus Buy? documentary [...]

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(I think I might start calling her Chewie.)
So, maybe inspired by the legion, last night we decided to watch the Empire Strikes Back for a family movie. It’s been awhile since the kids have seen it. I only made it to the Ewoks before I passed out on the floor.
It did equip me [...]

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(Another precious moment at Chitag. Boba Fett, TK118 and TB101 matched their wits.)
Regular readers here know me and my obsession with subgroups. That is why I love going to Chitag, the annual game and toy show in Chicago. This year my kids got in for free because they took the inventors challenge and came [...]

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This is one of the stories in which names will not be used in order to protect the innocent. And also to protect the parent of the innocents who would take the brunt of innocent wrath if it were discovered such a story about them were shared.
There was this child who had a loose [...]

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There is a high school several miles from us in a sturdy working class town where plenty of my homeschooling buddies live. This past week, some of the high school students organized a protest. They came out to protest the war and especially the fact that several times a week recruiters came to their school [...]

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(My little time traveling experiment last week was successful)
I saw a meme not so long ago and can’t recall where but I liked it and so I’ll just have to not drop names I guess and do the dang thing anyway. The idea is, if you could take any 5 classes on whatever interested you, [...]

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You know, I’m not going to excerpt my brilliant novel here or ask for your advice in staying on track, curtailing my wordiness or plottig things. I’m not going to tell you that I’m already 2000 words behind and my fingers are cramping from the workout. I’m just going to rejoice in that extra hour [...]

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