Monthly Archives: March 2010

I turned 16!! I went to the mall and got a pretty dress. I talked with my family from Mexico and Oregon! I met the Chick-fil-a cow. I decided to have raspberry-blackberry pie instead of cake, because really, when you … Continue reading →

I’ve been listening to talk radio a lot lately. It’s awesome. It’s not that I haven’t listened to it before, I have. Since the womb practically. I was born in 1994, the same year as the Contract with America and … Continue reading →

For the past few years we have had two and a half months of hard academic work from right after the holidays in January until Easter break in March.  It seems like we get pretty discouraged every year because of … Continue reading →

Now that I am back in the loop (after my “day job” imposed blogging hiatus), I have started following my favorite blogs again.  Luke over at Sonlight Blog had a particularly interesting post (soon to be a series it appears) … Continue reading →

This year our hits for the front page were down a little, but our overall number of hits on the blog were up significantly.  I think that is probably due to the fact that many people arrived at the blog … Continue reading →

Note: This post is one in a series on how we prepared our homeschooled children to take various College Level Examination Program tests. The introductory post for this series explains why we take these tests, what parts of the preparation … Continue reading →

University of Texas at Austin claims to have invented a cheap (28 cents per gal.) way to do coal gasification.  This sounds VERY interesting.  It would change everything.  Here is the article:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/texas-university-has-eureka-moment-for-coal-to-gas/article1502823/

You know those awkward silences when you’ve said something a bit out of place and no one responds? Or even worse, when you’ve said something that, as far as you know, is prefectly acceptable, but the silence is still there? … Continue reading →

“Veganism is a diet and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.” Animals are great. I love my cats, and as I’ve said before, I wouldn’t go hunting if my life … Continue reading →

February was somewhat of a grind this year because both Kelly and Christian have been preparing for upcoming tests.  We really did not have much in the way of external events to break up the homeschool a little.  We are … Continue reading →

My cousin Neil Duerst is at it again.  He ran over to Lakeside, Oregon and found our Finnish great grandfather, Oscar Raia Maki’s grave stone.  Then he found an article about him that was written in 1912.  We were especially … Continue reading →