Lord willing, I will be speaking at a conference in London this coming February. More information can be gathered here at the conference web site.
The Pink Longhorn Blog
Many of you know that my daughter has a line of designer skivv . . . uh, skirties, and is also willing to explain to you what skirties are exactly, and why you need them. She has just started up a blog, the better to do that with, and you can find it here.
Web-Based Grading
As the new school year starts up, let me take a brief moment for a product plug. New St. Andrews is testdriving a new college management system (for grades, attendance, communications, and more). The old system we had generally made work for me instead of working for me. If you are a college looking for …
Science Camp
Here is a press release from NSA that many of you may find interesting: NSA offers homeschoolers day-long Field Entomology Science Camp Parents can choose option that turns Oct. 10 camp into unit study Homeschoolers in the Pacific Northwest now have another option when it comes to teaching biology to their juniors and seniors. This …
In Case You’re the Kind Who Likes to Keep a Joke Around
I put the Dalai Bama image on a few t-shirts and mugs here. I am not sure, but I think Frank Turk made his millions this way.
Not the Kind of Pic Usually Seen at This Blog
My daughter Bekah offers a timely reminder of the kind of thing that can happen on a playground, starting next week sometime.
The Walnut of Doom
I just recently realized that we still have some copies Right Behind around here, and what’s with that? Unfortunately we don’t have any more copies of Supergeddon (“A Really Big Geddon”), but we do have some copies of, as I mentioned, Right Behind. What is that? you wonder. Is it connected at all to the …
100 Lager
100 Cupboards is being translated into a passle of languages, as I believe I already informed you. I think the Danes are first with 100 Lager. This very nice review below appeared in Denmark, and was written by one Christina Andersen. I am sure the, um, quaint turns of phrase here are actually a feature …
Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
Over the next few months, you will hear a goodish bit about all of these, four small books which have been the result of debating-the-atheists jag. Because I have already had to explain various confusions about which was what, I thought I should mention everything here, straight in a row. Sam Harris wrote a bestseller …
Put Me In, Coach
Some of the men in our church have been running the Bon Hom Lacrosse League for a few years, a summer program that helps get boys started early in this (fantastic) game. This last Saturday was grandson Rory’s first game ever. He is the one on the right, with gold striping on his shorts. As …