Monday, March 24, 2014. I have a client, a lovely lady. She has this GREAT BIG HUGE ENORMOUS ANCIENT BLACKHEAD on her back.

The world as seen through the eyes of an exhausted, caffiene addicted, homeschooling, atheist mama. Confessions of a NaNoWriMo Dropout. The leaves are turning, and in some cases, falling from the trees here in the high desert. Huh? Nano and I sign up every year. And every year I drop out.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Has everyone heard of the Zinn Education Project. And speaking of new .

Our journey thus far has taken us through a few math programs. Coming from Montessori we decided to start with Shiller Math. It is a Montessori based spiral curriculum that includes manipulatives. We enjoyed it, but I found some of it too easy and some too hard and because it spirals we needed to cover everything. So I moved on to Math U See. Bouncy Boy is also very into board games right now and playing with two dice .

I was going to write about the book Yo Miz! By Elizabeth Rose. I was going to tell you that it looks good to me. A substitute teacher taught in 25 schools in one year and then wrote about how messed up schools are. She has good bullets in her promotional material. Journalists are not allowed inside. Teachers are punished for speaking out publicly.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Why a blog carnival for atheist parenting? So that you can be among the first .

Thursday, July 9, 2015. Also, the mommy guilt. I am nothing if not a collector of hobbies. For me, who runs like a disabled hippo.