I hate when this happens: I stay up too late on the eve of the fall clock change, and wake up in the dark to attend an early Mass, only to realize that I could have slept an extra hour as the Mass starts an hour later. Luckily I’ll just feel the effects of sleeping [...]
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Fall backwards
Posted in life, tagged daylight savings, halloween on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What do they need to know?
Posted in Home schooling, life, writing on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s a movement within the home school movement that emphasizes completely child-lead learning. No curriculum, no textbooks (unless the child wants one), and from what I can understand, no structure beyond the normal routines of the family. This approach to education is called unschooling.
I’ve gone back and forth over how I feel about unschooling. I’ve [...]
Is it the house or the stuff?
Posted in life on October 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The past three weeks I’ve been working with L on a preschool program. It’s been lots of fun, but seems to require about three hours of planning for every hour and a half of teaching. Needless to say, I got behind on the housework and served my family macaroni and cheese more than I’m comfortable [...]
Not so lost
Posted in life on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s one for the “men who won’t ask for directions” category.
I did an internship in Hermosillo, Mexico the summer following my junior year in college. I met a professor at the university who had agreed to drive me to another professor’s home, where I would be staying. We set off in his car and drove. [...]
Green living I can live with
Posted in bee keeping, life, nutrition, worm composting on July 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’ve never considered myself an environmentalist. In fact, I’m more of a laissez-faire capitalist. I may be wrong on this, but my understanding is that recycling doesn’t make much economic sense. If it were economical, people would be doing it privately and getting rich off it. So, I haven’t been one to separate out glass [...]
Refi Revisited
Posted in finances, life on June 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After reading a comment to my previous post from a mortgage broker, I asked Ken Ryan from Ark Funding Group to clarify what I thought I heard him say about Freddie Mac no longer buying mortgages for manufactured housing. It turns out it’s not quite as cut and dry as I implied in the post.
First [...]
Refried refi
Posted in finances, life on May 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
After years of hearing the slogan “when banks compete, you win!” on radio commercials, I took the bait and filled out the form on Lendingtree.com. That was Saturday morning.
Tuesday morning I got a call from a very enthusiastic senior broker from Heartland Finance who insisted he was the best and assured me he would [...]
A carpool!
Posted in life on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When gas prices in my area jumped over the three dollar mark I got this sinking feeling in my stomach. I paid the bills for the month, then looked at what was left. “Honey, you can’t afford to drive to work this month,” I bleakly told my husband. He nodded, but of [...]
