Homeschool Fiction

We’re huge Indiana Jones fans around here; we all loved the new movie (I thought it was the best one yet) and we’ve been working our way through The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume One – The Early Years, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Two – The War Years, and The Adventures [...]

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Photograph taken in Tucson, Arizona (west of I-10, near “A” Mountain), March 2008. I’ve heard many parents say they limit their children’s television and movie viewing (both content and total “screen time“) because they are fearful their children will grow into zombie couch potatoes that essentially worship videos. It’s such an amazing sloth-like image, it [...]

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This could have been titled “Are you celebrating something special today?” Twice in one day last week I was asked something similar to the above – once by a checkout lady and the next time by a waitress. Just what was my family doing? Having fun going about our normal day-to-day activities. We just were [...]

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Right now, my Always Unschooled 7 year old is busy-busy-busy. From the get go, she has been one that has never stopped moving. She just can’t – still and quiet aren’t in her nature (although she is very very quiet in new situations). She moves all the time. Watching a single television show requires rolling, [...]

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Science Fiction, String Theory, and Star Trek What do these have in common? God. Yes, God, with a capital G. I’ve heard the comments directed at Trekkies: “Oh, what geeks,” and “They just dress up and live in a little pretend world, how adolescent.” How banal that Trekkies are mistreated and misunderstood so! [How sad [...]

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