My kids delight in telling people that they are ‘hometeached’. Lovely. As if we haven’t fielded enough questions through the years about our grand social experiment called homeschooling. When we started schooling at home seventeen years ago when 1 of 8 was in kindergarten, homeschooling was not the known and discussed phenom that it is today. Back in 1 of…
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This is the next to last day countdown to the demise of Picnik, the online photo editing system I’ve been using for years. I whined about its closure a few weeks ago. But yesterday….oh, yesterday. There came a shining light in my photo editing darkness. PicMonkey. I know it seem a little sudden and capricious. But I am in love…
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There it is. The final flight of the Shuttle program. Bittersweet. My childhood was spent following the people and technology that were responsible for this era of space flight. My dad is a literal rocket engineer and we always had the tail of the Shuttle in our sights as we moved from Marshall Space Center in Hunstville, Alabama, to the…
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So if you’re my friend on Facebook you’ve already seen these. But I’m posting them here on my blog. ‘Cuz I can hang whatever I want on the walls here. Did I ever tell you I had a photography business years ago? I did. And I loved it. And I did my fair share of photo shoots at preschools with…
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