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5 years

Fourteen years ago, my four-year-old daughter lost her dearest stuffed animal friend ever. Plurna was gone. We all wept. For months. Today, my farm manager found Plurna in the woods wrapped in roots. We washed her and she is whole. I am speechless.

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4 years

My immuno-suppressed husband and I have just attended his father's funeral online. I don't even think I need to comment on the surreality of that, I'll just let it sit there.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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@nightlightoasis Actual shepherd here (plus 30 years of pastor's wife/worship leader time under my belt). Not only is this ridiculous--NO shepherd would ever do such a thing because it would kill the sheep--but it shows a dark, twisted view of how Christ cares for his people.

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2 years

Concerning Scottsdale Mark Driscoll: a thread. 1/7 After listening to @MikeCosper on "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill," I was gripped by how much of my story with the church was reflected in that tragedy. In an ongoing attempt to understand more, I've checked into

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Susan Wise Bauer

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump College educated women prefer leaders who don't obsessively focus on the physical appearance of female constituents/reporters/opponents/former lovers. That's why many of us won't be voting for you.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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4 years

Apparently my support for the COVID-19 vaccines means that a number of readers can no longer accept my view on grammar, writing instruction, and ancient history.

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1 year

@peltzmadeline Why is she asking this boy for advice? I'm puzzled. And afraid for her.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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28 days

@Brian_Sauve 1) Welfare fraud is, unfortunately, widespread but not primarily carried out by immigrants. 2) Rape is horrendous. Rape in the United States is 99.9% a crime committed by U.S. citizens. 3) Voting Democratic does not automatically equal "leftism," although I'm sure that will not

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1 year

Three mothers sent their nine-year-olds to a little Christian school in Nashville this morning. They planned for after school snacks and dinner and homework. They planned for the rest of their lives. Please pray for them. Please vote for this gun-fetishing insanity to end.

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James Lafayette Wise, Jr., MD September 17, 1936 to May 3, 2024 My father died early this morning at the age of 87. He was born in New Orleans, educated as the only Baptist student at his Jesuit high school, and then went to Carson-Newman University in Tennessee, where he met

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2 years

7/8 Evangelicalism that continues to applaud and follow this sort of "teaching" will simply move further and further away from the gospel, and will obscure more and more what it means to follow Christ.

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5 years

I learned how to type in 1978. I will probably never be able to not put two spaces after a period.

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2 months

@LChas22 I'm so glad that you had the courage to do what was right for you and for your kids. Wonderful to hear that they're prospering!

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@JeremyTate41 Jury of his peers.

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4 years

@AdamHSays Enkidu steered it...while Gilgamesh held the head of Humbaba. (Yeah, I don't really need to mention the title.)

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4 years

I write in my journal 5 mornings a week. This morning I read an essay about how great it is to leave your journals as a gift to the next generation and all I could think was: How can I be sure that they're all destroyed before I die???

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@OhNoSheTwitnt Um, Marxists are not occultists. Marxism is a naturalist political philosophy that doesn't reference the supernatural at all. I'm so tired of people throwing "Marxist" around as an insult when they have no idea what the word means.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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2 years

3/7 all in the Old Testament: because preaching exclusively from the Old Testament means that you can focus on power and empire-building instead of character, nationalistic pride instead of union with Christ, culture wars instead of peacemaking.

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2 years

Francis Schaeffer was a difficult and complicated man...but I can't imagine that he's not ROTATING MADLY IN HIS GRAVE right now.

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"While many of our Reformed Thought Leaders are blathering on about this and that, Tucker Carlson has picked up the mantle of Francis Shaeffer.”

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A follower on the Other Site asked me why I described my 5 semesters at Liberty as "horrible," so I'll just add this here. ** Even though this was a "university," the scorn for intellectual inquiry was evident in almost every class; questioning and real uncertainty was

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Susan Wise Bauer

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7 years

While I love this sentiment, I don't think it's true. Hate is natural and assures survival. We must learn to love unnaturally.

Barack Obama

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7 years

"...For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." - Nelson Mandela

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3 years

@KatecBowler Not "worst" but possibly "most disruptive": seven-year-old ring- bearer threw up all over the groom's shoes, the bride's train, and the ring and ring-pillow, then bolted away sobbing and left the ring & pillow in a pile of vomit at the front of the church.

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6 months

Quite a long post. I've been holding back on posting the following because I prefer to post positive recommendations rather than criticisms of specific programs. But I think that, over the course of the next year, we're going to hear "God's will for our country" and "God's

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3 years

@KatecBowler Groom says to best man, "Pick that up, man," and best man says, "No way, dude, I'm not touching it.." Bride, to her enormous credit, was laughing so hard that the whole thing turned funny. Wedding continued once usher with rubber gloves appeared to rescue pillow and detach ring.

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5 years

@monicasharman FOUR. TEEN. Snowstorms, ice storms. Torrential rains. At least one hurricane. I can't wrap my brain around it.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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4 years

My smallpox vaccine (born 68).My husband's smallpox vaccine (born 61). THIS IS WHY MY CHILDREN DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SMALLPOX. Please, as soon as you're offered the chance for the vaccine, take it.

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2 years

@KSPrior The fact that this work has not been ongoing for the last fifty years does not bode well for the future. There's no convincing evidence that the "people of God" have the inclination to step up in this way.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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2 years

IT FINALLY HAPPENED. Wordle 548 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Susan Wise Bauer

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4 years

This little guy is out in the sunshine for the first time in his life today. It does my heart good to watch him rejoice; I hope it does the same for you.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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6 years

My word for the day is Kummerspeck--the German term for comfort eating, or what happens to you when you do too MUCH comfort eating. It's literally "sorrow fat"--or, which I like better, "grief bacon." Yep. I'm seeing some grief bacon on today's menu.

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2 years

@reachjulieroys This article seems to be tracking home schooling twenty years ago, not today. The Story of the World is the most widely used home school history text in use (I have figures). If any reporters out there want to do an actual deep dive, I'm available.

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2 years

5/7 appalled by the corrupt entertainment that the Persians put in front of their children, the evil emperor is essentially Joe Biden.) There is no comprehension of God's ongoing work over millennia: just a complete cut-and-paste of conservative political preoccupations onto

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4 years

SO THIS JUST HAPPENED ON THE FARM.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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3 years

we are not open to hosting, on this site, misinformation about the dangers that vaccines may cause to the human race, considering that, for 300 years, they have prevented hoards of people from dying.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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2 years

Unexpected fun to have a book pop onto a new bestseller list, fifteen years after initial publication!

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4 years

I have never seen anything like this before. But hey, I'm only 52, and I write world history. So *we* have seen this before. Just in other clothes.

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2 years

4/7 Driscoll's OT sermons display all of the misunderstanding of the purposes of Scripture that shaped my own upbringing. A complete lack of any historical sense: his OT characters are just modern Americans. (Nehemiah loves Jesus and reads his bible, the Hebrew parents are

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Susan Wise Bauer

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump In passing: Random capitalization is a dealbreaker for a very small but dedicated number of us as well.

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4 years

I started off Monday with a bang/whimper by posting in support of masks on my Facebook page and bringing out the mob with pitchforks. I really don't understand why this is so hard to grasp. I try to understand differing points of view. But resistance to this is simply beyond me.

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It's simple: the more we wear masks around others, the less Covid spreads.

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4 years

It's a sad day when I comment on the protest/social distancing dilemma, and then can't figure out whether to spend my energy responding to the rampant racists, or the anti-science virus-denying conspiracists. Props to all the sane and compassionate people who've posted...

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3 years

@LauraGalanWells I am not kidding here. IVERMECTIN. I ordered it for the sheep. JUST the sheep.

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3 years

My fully vaccinated husband and I spent yesterday afternoon with our granddaughter in a park. First time in over a year. She's gotten so tall.

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5 years

Advice from Europe's first book of etiquette, 1559: "And when thou hast blown thy nose, do not open thy handkerchief to glare upon thy snot, as if thou hadst pearls and Rubies fallen from thy brains." Human nature really doesn't change.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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2 years

2/7 @PastorMark 's sermons from Trinity occasionally. They are a frightening microcosm of the kind of evangelicalism that I am still healing from. The casual misogyny is only the most obvious problem. Driscoll 's last two and next two announced sermon series are

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2 years

6/7 a complex and tragic story of rebuilding a physical temple, when that was never God's ultimate purpose. Instead, Driscoll trumpets the need to build a wall to preserve our culture, and ends with this "application": an appeal to Trinity's building campaign. (Donate online!)

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Susan Wise Bauer

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4 years

My daughter keeps texting me from her theatre history class because she's so excited about ancient Greek theatre production values, and both my mom heart and my teacher heart are very full right now.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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3 years

We just added this on the Well-Trained Mind Forums board rules. *I* just added this. Blame me. Deal, or go somewhere else to talk about educating your kids.

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5 years

Here's a modest proposal: We require prospective immigrants to take a civics test as soon as our President is able to pass it. Without cheating.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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2 years

Missing my German shepherd today. I'm surrounded by wonderful people who love me, but he was the only living creature interested in my very smallest movements. Now nobody really cares that I'm putting on my barn shoes and heading outside! Wish you were still here, best of dogs.

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4 years

For the first time in 24 years, I do not need to file an August home schooling Letter of Intent with my local school board.

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4 years

If someone I loved had died of Covid-19 in an underfunded, understaffed, underprovided hospital, I'd want to burn the world down right now.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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3 years

My parents and their primary caretakers--myself and my cousin--just got our second Moderna shot today. The relief of knowing that I'm not going to make them severely ill is unspeakable. And yes, we'll all continue to wear masks when we're out in public.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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7 years

14-year-old daughter of Texas pastor killed in church shooting while father out of town. Support of gun control my #1 voting issue in 2018.

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4 months

@OhNoSheTwitnt OK, not exactly a pet but really cute.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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6 years

Hey, Twitterers, just letting you know (in case you don't follow me on other channels) that my husband's been in the hospital with drug-resistant pneumonia for the last seven days, so I'm running out of non-hospital topics to Tweet about. Keep us in your thoughts.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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4 years

Just keep repeating: Tomorrow will have 5 seconds more daylight than today.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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3 years

Almighty Father, whose will is to restore all things in your beloved Son, the King of all: govern the hearts and minds of those in authority, and bring the families of the nations, divided and torn apart to be subject to his just and gentle rule; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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3 years

That I-looking trophy-icon between the L and the V is SUPER distracting to those of us who keep thinking that this is Superbowl 54.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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5 months

Physical copies of the new edition of The Well-Trained Mind arrived this week!! I'm hoping this will be the *final* edition. Here's why. The book has always had two aspects--how and what to teach (the pattern of classical education and strategies for carrying it out), and

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5 years

It's hard to know how to fight back, meaningfully, daily, against the racist xenophobic garbage spewing from the highest levels of our government. Here's my small resolution: I will learn to speak Spanish. I've been wanting to for years. Now I'm committing to the project.

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2 months

@KSPrior I do background checks for my farm employees. We have school groups and families touring the farm. I would never hire a farm employee without making sure that there are no abuse records. Ever. That's a FARM business. Step up, church.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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4 years

@thehill No matter where you're at on the political spectrum, I hope you can recognize the wisdom of this move. No PRIVATE FOR PROFIT company should be in the business of imprisoning people.

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4 years

Does anyone want to try to convince me that it's my civic duty to watch the Presidential debate tonight? Because I was really leaning roast chicken, red wine, and Parks & Rec.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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2 years

Instead of posting about the Oscars, I'm going to share happy jumping three-day-old lambs. You're welcome.

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1 year

This is an pivotal announcement for the Well-Trained Mind enterprise... I am DELIGHTED to announce that the FINAL edition of THE WELL-TRAINED MIND: A GUIDE TO CLASSICAL EDUCATION AT HOME has been scheduled for publication on March 19, 2024. Here's the scoop! Since the first

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1 year

@SolaSisters @reachjulieroys The most disturbing thing to me in this interview is when he says, "If he's simply hurting her." Hurting is never simple. It is vicious and scarring and distorting and evil.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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6 years

The world's first compulsory education act, passed in Scotland in 1496, required the oldest sons of landowners to stay in school UNTIL THEIR LATIN WAS PERFECT. Yeah, tell your kids to quit complaining about their grammar exercises.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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2 years

Just preemptively noting that this is my actual account. (I applied for a blue check, but since I'm *just* an author and not an *influencer*, my follower count was deemed insufficient.)

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4 months

Today is PUBLICATION DAY for the Essential Edition (the final one, I hope!) of THE WELL-TRAINED MIND! We have done our best to make this last edition as timeless as possible, by moving specific recommendations online and making THE WELL-TRAINED MIND itself into a handbook on HOW

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4 years

Lies. And damned lies. And no statistics. Do not grant POTUS the honor of your ears.

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1 year

I had a 14-hour workday yesterday and I think I'm going to have another one tomorrow, but TODAY is my birthday, so I had coffee and toast in bed and read the first part of Ian McEwan's new novel and now I am drawing with colored pencils and watching disaster movies. Bliss.

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Susan Wise Bauer

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5 years

Languishing on the sofa with heavy-duty antibiotics and hot whiskey with lemon when my daughter's cat walked up, purred, patted me affectionately with her paw, and then threw up in my lap. That felt deliberate. #theuniverseisagainstme #shewillgotocollegeandleavethecathere

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4 years

FAMILY GAME NIGHT and I SCHOOLED them all in Citadel. Yep. I ruled. Decimated. Triumphed. Obliterated. IN YOUR FACES. Also, if the goal of family game night is good relational feelings and love, that might not have happened.

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5 years

My husband seems to be enjoying this parenting-young-adults phase of life...

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5 years

Since I last tweeted, I fed 80 head of livestock 6 times, sat on a baby horse for the first time, wrote 7 grammar exercises, cooked 5 dinners for 5, worked on a novel that will never be finished, had 3 naps, read some poetry, and contemplated happiness.

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6 years

HOME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY.

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10 months

"Keep in mind that the Duggars were followed around by cameras as part of their reality show for years. There was more documentation and supervision of their family than any other, and abuse still happened. More mandatory reporters visiting their home would likely have made no

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4 years

RIP to RBG. Go forward into the light.

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According to Jewish tradition, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah, which began tonight, is a tzaddik, a person of great righteousness. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

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On this day in 1958, the Lego Group filed for a patent on its newly invented "Lego bricks," thus creating a giant sucking sound on the wallets of all parents of preteens.

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3 months

I am trying to read a scholarly article and the author just used the word "Resultantly," and so now I am done reading this article.

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5 years

THESE ARE MY MINI-COWS. Nigel, Madeline, and Daphne. You're welcome.

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7 months

Happy 50th anniversary to one of our long-time family favorites! ** For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling. Are those mice really driving a car

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I said I would never do it, but today I bought a cow. Actually, three cows. But...they're all tiny (mature 30-36" at the shoulder). That will make it easier, right?

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2 years

Just in case anyone else wants to share a parenting fail. One of my adult children said last night, in a EUREKA kind of voice, "Oh...those numbers that come with my car registration are STICKERS! I never knew that." (This may have been post-ticket.)

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So for the next year or so, we have *two* adult children living at home. Just to be clear, we are 100% happy about this. We live in a turn of the century farmhouse with way more space than an empty-nest couple needs. Plus there's a ton of room to roam on the farm. If they can

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(1/9) (Very long thread but I want to get this word out.) I have just now been made aware that I am being "name dropped" in connection with the new Virginia history standards. I had no idea of this until I did a search and found my name popping up in stories.

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4 years

I personally enjoy the touch of mystery.

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8 months

Once again, lazy, careless, sensationalist reporting from WaPo about homeschooling. This is a horrific, tragic story. No one denies that abusive parents make use of all of the concealments that may cover up their evil--including alternative education. But this stepmother was

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5 years

I had to hide from Twitter for a while because the recovery of Plurna ate my twitter feed. I've been a professional writer for over two decades, plugging away to get decent publicity, and Plurna scooped the pool. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

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This. Woman. Had a baby. This morning. Put on a dress and heels THE SAME DAY. Went out and waved at the press. Can she be our next President??

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Now that my office is clean, I have a few news pieces to share with you. (Although I've noticed that pictures of my office are more popular than my take on current events and educational trends. But that's fine, I understand.) My first set of headlines is, once again, about

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4 years

Giving the new baby some love...

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8 months

I'm waving goodbye until after the New Year! I plan to cook, eat, sing carols, watch movies and play games with my kids, wrap presents, feed my sheep and goats and horses and ducks, and write whatever I feel like writing, whenever I feel like writing it. See you in 2024.

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5 years

ARGH I just realized the clocks go forward tomorrow WE HATES IT WE HATES IT WE HATES IT FOREVER

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5 years

I'm thoroughly enjoying the phase of life where I want to take my adult children on vacation with me because I like them so much.

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5 years

THEY HAVE ALL GONE AWAY FOR THE AFTERNOON. No matter how much you love them, being in your own house all alone is a gift.

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6 years

I got to hug my seventeen-year-old and make her coffee this morning. I am both unutterably grateful for these mundane and wonderful acts, and utterly heartbroken for the parents in Florida who cannot do the same.

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An absolutely searing indictment of the standardized test industry. Link follows; please read the whole piece. The goal of a classical education is to develop the entire person. Standardized tests do not serve the person. They serve the developer of the test.

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