Last month I mocked an article that suggested Christian couples were sharing social networking passwords as a pro-active defense against Internet Induced Infidelity.
Apparently I mocked too soon. The Wall Street Journal has written pretty much the same story, except that extended it to suggest all of us need to avoid friending our exes due to […]

The USFA announced their Academic All American program today. Recognizing high school age fencers that are excelling academically is an admirable goal. Surprisingly, they even included homeschooolers.

From the FAQ:
I’m home schooled or attending a non-traditional school. Can I still qualify for this program?
Absolutely. Your grades, converted to a 4.0-scale GPA, must be […]

I read Blake Boles new book College without High School over the last couple of evenings. I think this is a book every homeschooler approaching high school age should read. Really, every teenager should read it. Not every one will be able to bail on school, but I think they could apply a lot from […]

Sadie Hawkins Day is not a pleasant memory for me. I never got asked to the dance. I ended up at the base youth center shooting pool and watching MTV. Go me. Really, the whole concept is just flawed. It’s not like the girls weren’t completely in charge under the traditional dance set up […]

Somehow, we’ve never made it to the State Fair. That changed this year as our daughter had 5 entries in the youth art competition, so we had to go see those on display. We’ll be back Friday AM with a show pony that she is showing in 6 or 7 classes.
The State Fair is not […]

We weren’t home an hour yesterday (from the State 4H Horse Show) when Delaney reported that her PC wasn’t working. It worked fine when she shut it down last Thursday. It appeared as though something was wrong with her graphics card. So I plugged the monitor into the on board graphics port and rebooted. It […]

Stranger things have happened Valerie has a very interesting post up. She slogged through 9 years of email list archives to come up with a representative sample of legal requests related to homeschooling.
The quick and dirty breakdown of the queries for help is:
* Custody
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Both of these places are within an hour drive and we had been to neither, until today. Westmoreland is best known for fossil beach. It’s a very pleasant little beach that you follow an easy 1/2 mile trail to get to. Swimming in the river is not allowed, but the line between swimming and looking […]

According to ABC, it’s become trendy for Christian couples to share their email and Facebook passwords with each other. Of course, every couple insists that it has nothing to do with not trusting their partners, it’s about not trusting themselves.
Um, what’s the difference? If anything, not trusting yourself is worse. You have no control over […]

In what has become a much loved tradition (at least for me), I give you the annual O’DonnellWeb Anniversary Haiku.
Married eighteen years
we go through life side-by-side
just like her new fridge
Happy Anniversary Sweetie On the agenda is dinner at Bonefish Grill, with a bottle of sparking wine waiting for us in the fridge at […]