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Is There Life on Mars?

Laura posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 6:00 am
Is there? Is there life on mars? Maybe a stray amino acid or some other unknown life building block? It could be there frozen in the polar ice, couldn't it? It's all a bit wistful. Still,...
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Long Time No Post

Laura posted an article on - Nov 7, 2009, 7:57 am
Hello cyber friends! Hello internet folks! Hello pixel readers! How are you? I said I wasn't going to post here much because of the homeschooling conference work I'm doing. It is now rampin...
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Mary Travers

Laura posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 6:00 am
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary fame died yesterday. I think I've known their songs for all of my life: Puff the Magic Dragon, their versions of If I Had a Hammer , Where Have All the Flowe...
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Houston, We Have a Problem

Laura posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 10:04 pm
Me: What's the difference between a meteor and a meteorite? The meteor is glowing in the sky and the meteorite is the rock once it's landed? Is that right? Husband: Yes. And if it lands o...
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Great America Homeschooling Day

Laura posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 7:36 pm
My kids don't "go back to school" because we homeschool. We don't have a start to the year and just keep doing what we do all year round. We do however have a homeschooling day at Great Amer...
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Things Only a Republican Could Believe

Laura posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 11:27 pm
I know not all Republicans believe these contradictory things. I do know this. There are plenty of Republicans who simply want less government interference in the daily life of Americans and want l...
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In Light of the Health Care Debate

Laura posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 8:43 am
This has been floating around for a while, but I just saw it for the first time recently. August 29th, 2004 9:38 pm Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican by John Gray Joe gets up at 6:00am t...
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That Highway

Laura posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 11:33 am
If I was going on an adventure, I might go down Highway 61. As it is, we might just go to Park Day instead which involves no highway travel... this time. Enjoy your weekend.
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I Just Bought a Bunch of Stuff!

Laura posted an article on - Aug 18, 2009, 11:24 am
I just bought of bunch of stuff! We are still mostly not buying anything new. But, I've completely rationalized it all to myself that that does not apply to things for the kids' education. W...
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Mercury Exposure is Unhealthy? What?!

Laura posted an article on - Aug 12, 2009, 12:13 pm
What?! Mercury exposure is unhealthy? It is a known neurotoxin and it may cause problems in little children and pregnant women? Who knew? And yet... I think lots of people did know and would que...
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When You Know You are Right...

Laura posted an article on - Aug 10, 2009, 2:56 pm
Because we sometimes have strong feelings about what we know to be right, I offer this comic relief: Ha, ha, ha, hee, ho, ha!!
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Don't Let it Bring You Down

Laura posted an article on - Aug 7, 2009, 6:30 am
Feeling down? It's only castles burning. Find someone who's turning...
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Que Sera, Sera

Laura posted an article on - Aug 7, 2009, 6:00 am
I didn't like reading The Hobbit. I know that is sacrilege for lots of people. And, how is it even possible?! What's not to like in the twisting, turning plot of tiny Bilbo Baggins and his...
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Poppies!

Laura posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 10:19 am
My daughter planted seeds back in the spring. In our living room, we had a table top full of seedlings in egg cartons and black plastic trays. The seedlings were full of hope and energy--so earnest....
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Random Thoughts...

Laura posted an article on - Aug 5, 2009, 1:54 pm
Here are some thoughts I've had over the last week or so. No real link between them all except that some might recognize a bit of absurdity--and who doesn't love the absurd? President Barack ...
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So Long Suckas...

Laura posted an article on - Jul 27, 2009, 9:44 pm
It isn't always this easy. People don't necessarily get these kind of small, but important domestic victories that embolden the spirit, that make you feel triumphant. Back when our dishwash...
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Because I hated Disco and Listened to The Loop

Laura posted an article on - Jul 24, 2009, 6:00 am
There are some groups that bring me right back to the late 70's early 80's and remind me of the Chicago music station The Loop which played: Journey, The Who, Rush, REO Speedwagon and not any...
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