It has been a helluva a week or two here in Candyland, Illinois. As you can see, the snow and ice(ing) are just clinging to the eaves. That shiny silver stuff on the ground is actually black ice, so watch it Erlene the mail carrier! Salt is not to be found this time of year [...]

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(I call it V-tree.)
I have to admit, when it comes to blogging, I’m all hot air. But some people actually DO stuff. Useful, techy stuff that I can’t imagine doing.  So, hats off to you at Kenwardtown.
On the twisted X-mas front, if you’ve run out of cute holiday pictures of your children and you have [...]

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(The elves I inherited from my grandmother.)
Well, the new Bitch is out, and she’s talking the talk about feminism and homeschooling. Seriously, the totally nice and unbitchy writer Maya Schenwar’s article addressing the topic of a new wave of radical, punk, unschooly feminists is out and yours truly is quoted in it. As is Sarah [...]

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(My summer of knitting a shawl is over. I’m done! True it looks more like a fishing net in some respects, but it was simple and easy to make and my daughter has already claimed it as part of her renaissance outfit for the fair she will be going to. We just don’t have any [...]

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(We call him ‘Leather Pants Poi Guy’)
The back-to-homeschool flutter is starting again. Each year it manifests itself around the back-to-school flutter, which isn’t strictly necessary. Every year I try to resist the angst, the excitement, the promise of new adventures, the fear of untold car mileage, but I am helpless to the general hubbub and [...]

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R.I.P. Punk Planet, the print version. The blog will live on, I hope! We’ll miss ye. Remember, punk never dies, it just mutates and flies in to something else. I’ll draw a picture of it sometime to explain. Meanwhile, I’ll have to search harder to find where the talented writers are now.

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The year I turned 18, these were a few of the hits that effected me in this precise manner: wait, dang, now you can figure out how old I am….unless I don’t actually state the year and you weren’t alive so can’t recall these songs. Okay, so this is a meme. I’ve been tagged by [...]

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(One thing I did last week instead of blogging. Took the dynamic duo to the Art Institute to admire great art and try to draw it. This charmed some old Europeans and irritated some young ones. Because Europeans appear to be the main visitors at the art museum as far as I could tell. Oh, [...]

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I’m so punk rock that I’m in Punk Planet. Not sure how this one snuck by me, but gawsh, I love Anne Elizabeth Moore. Too bad I have to login or register to fight the punky dogmatics who commented afterwards, or else I ‘d rip them a new one. Is that apathetic enough for [...]

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So many awards. So little time to whip a new award out of my own brain and make a cute button so I can feel the power. Oh wait, this is a circular award thingy! I can just pick my own thinking bloggers. Yes. Power at last! Now is really the pinnacle of my blogging [...]

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