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News from the Treehouse: April 2011
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Friday, April 22, 2011. To demonstrate his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay poll taxes for six years, and when the tax collector demanded payment, Thoreau went to jail for his principles. But his aunt ended up paying the money for him, and he went free the very next day. He was a little disgruntled. Why risk invalid scores and possibly lower property values? O come STAR test season 2011....
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News from the Treehouse: May 2011
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Sunday, May 29, 2011. Spring Sing, Maker Faire. It has been RAINING this month. Not a whole lot, but we all know that part of the mortgage is going toward predictably warm and sunny weather in May and I, for one, am a little resentful. Johnny's school held their annual Spring Sing outside despite the rain (it was almost cancelled because there were no contingency plans in place because as I mentioned, it's not supposed to rain in May. As you m...
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News from the Treehouse: Less is more
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Thursday, December 8, 2011. Hard to hold on to this, but I'm beginning to think maybe it's true. That is, I think maybe it's true when I'm not worried that we're not doing/covering/learning enough at this little school of ours. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Stay up to date! View my complete profile. Just Hungry - Japanese food! Authentic, mostly healthy Japanese recipes for everyone. Fugu, are you a pig? Sitting on a Branch in the Drizzle.
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News from the Treehouse: February 2011
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Wednesday, February 16, 2011. A link sent to me: 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Send Your Kids to College. And seven things they can do instead. Links to this post. Monday, February 14, 2011. Boys and nonfiction, redux. Remember what I said about Star Wars encyclopedias being fiction. Scratch that. Reverse it. Star Wars encyclopedias are non. Links to this post. Get into the escape pod! Get in the escape pod first! I'll hold 'em off! D: No, you.
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News from the Treehouse: Boys
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Friday, November 18, 2011. Hank has three of his old school [old skool] buddies over today. Among other activities, they spent some time shrieking the dumbest questions they could think of at Hank's magic eight ball: Will we blow up in one second? Will the Magic 8-ball blow up? Are we in heaven? I had a flashback to about a month ago when my iPhone 4G in the mail, and Tad and his friend Rowell experimented with Siri by asking it (her?
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News from the Treehouse: October 2011
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Dan scoffs, "That's not a sailor's nickname.". The bartender gives the boy another suspicious look, accuses him of being that kid detective folks have been talking about, and kicks him out almost immediately thereafter. Well, of course the bartender got suspicious," says my little know-it-all, "No sailor is named Shorty.". Shorty is a cowboy. Oh Well, I guess maybe you're right about that.". Links to this post.
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News from the Treehouse: Reluctant Writer
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Saturday, November 19, 2011. That would be Hank. One of the biggest problems we face as we do this homeschool thing together is writing. Well, getting him to write. Anything. A single fighter steps into the fray. But He fails to notice a single helicopter that fires…three laser cannons…straight into the windshield. Sic ] its skin, the dragon mother picks it up, and- shoop! The tunnel goes right into a volcano. It's been hollowed out so the...
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News from the Treehouse: August 2011
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Monday, August 29, 2011. Pretending to be.I don't know. Some kind of military freelancer with a vaguely New Zealandish accent (the clone troopers have a NZ accent) and no sense of irony:. This isn't a world where people are always happy, you know. Some of them will try to kill you- destroy you. But I have just the thing for that: deadly weapons. Links to this post. Thursday, August 25, 2011. Playing in the backyard. A quiet moment indoors.
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News from the Treehouse: June 2013
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Monday, June 24, 2013. When I am an old woman I shall wear a monokini. Imagine this woman 50 pounds heavier and 55 years older. Flesh ballooned out of every opening and sagged over every edge. A gaily striped band of material stretched over her belly, which bulged like two wrinkly marshmallows on either side. My first thought was, "Wow, that's. When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
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News from the Treehouse: November 2011
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News from the Treehouse. Dispatches from the suburban jungle. Saturday, November 19, 2011. That would be Hank. One of the biggest problems we face as we do this homeschool thing together is writing. Well, getting him to write. Anything. A single fighter steps into the fray. But He fails to notice a single helicopter that fires…three laser cannons…straight into the windshield. Sic ] its skin, the dragon mother picks it up, and- shoop! The tunnel goes right into a volcano. It's been hollowed out so the...
