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“May the bright light of human reason illuminate the nights of your solstice season.” The North Texas Church of Freethought is proud to offer you a secular alternative for your holiday card needs this year.

An Olympic slide show of cutting edge athletic cool that, like Johnny B. Good in Back to the Future, you may not be ready for but your kids are gonna love – The sleek LZR Racer corset swimsuit wasn’t the only athletic equipment to make news at the Beijing Olympics.

I seldom ask outright but please — go read this and if it rings true for you too, share it. I don’t think there is a God; but I wish there was one. There it is. I said it. I had never actually said this to anyone until my seven-year-old daughter asked me point-blank, “Mom, do you believe in God?” It had been easy to avoid a concrete answer up to that point.

You know about always-unschooled Young Son’s new learning passion, the great highland bagpipes? There’s so much to learn musically and technically and it’s all so “foreign” for him, compared to anything he’s experienced before — no doubt part of the attraction.

Fox News Gives Michelle Obama an A-plus?? 18 06 2008 I swear I just saw this on cable news — Shepard Smith and some expert analyzing clips of her dishing on The View today, in her so-called “soft debut” for the general election.

storms and sunsets June 10, 2008 by Maggie, dammit I don’t understand how he’s doing it, my dad, this thing, this whole thing, right now, down there. I don’t understand, my mind can’t stretch itself around, its arms reach out, fall short, grab air, grab nothing. It’s not that he isn’t strong, he is.

JK Rowling: Power of Story Expands Minds, Changes Reality 7 06 2008 It’s all here, her funny AND serious personal story told almost shyly at Harvard for commencement weekend, as suggesting some real-life scripts for learning and earning, success and failure, voting, living, protesting, parenting, preventing poverty and pursuing peace.

Without Kids, What Would I Know Worth Knowing? 31 05 2008 What would I be doing now without kids? In my life parenting has been a real education. So I guess without kids, I’d just be uneducated! This is funny to me now, in light of all the formal schooling I had under my belt before I had kids.

Good Post From Holly at Unschool Days 28 05 2008 Go take a look and enjoy: “One-hundredth Post– and Archaic Forms of Bagel Torture” Aren’t we a fine community at that? The second part of her post made me recall someone (Lynn at Bore Me to Tears maybe?) recounting how she once attracted a

. . .just makes unschooling (our kind of home education) for us. Too bad it’s not the same college town I grew up in — Go Gators! — but that’s a minor point compared to the difference between living in any college town, and not. We’d miss a lot in our unschooling, if not surrounded by [...]