Month: June 2012

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Flunking the Future?

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Arugh!  I wrote a post about education, but somehow it got lost in cyberspace.  Because it is after 11pm, and because my eyes are getting fuzzy, I will have to make do with the quick and dirty version. Public Schools Flunk Out.  Only 34% of ninth graders who took the new STAAR test passed English 1 Writing and Reading.  Our students deserve better.  Public schools ought to take a page from homeschoolers and try other curriculum, such as Institute for Excellence in Writing.  My daughter began using IEW in the second semester of her 4th grade year. Here is my … Continue reading Flunking the Future?

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Filled

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My girl is back from camp, and all is right with the world. There’s a mountain of red-dirt-stained laundry piled up in the laundry room…but I don’t care.  My eyes are gritty from the foray into Pollen Kingdom, but I don’t care. My girl is back from camp, tired, slightly sunburned, and filled to the brim with lessons she learned about the Lord as well as loads of new and renewed friendships. Coming home is a bit of a letdown for her.  We don’t have a boat or a lake or waterskis or a climbing rock. Nor do we play … Continue reading Filled

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Small towns, pickup trucks, “mountains” and stinkbugs

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Life really is different in a small town. The ebb and flow is like molasses.  People don’t drive to the store in their pickup trucks — rather, they scoot their way down the road. Down here in these parts, it’s plumb normal to see a pack of children — or dogs — taking a joyride in the back of the aforementioned pickup truck. I remember those days…we all fought over who got to sit on the hump.  I imagine, though, that if someone hauled their kids or their dogs in the back of a truck in my suburban city, the … Continue reading Small towns, pickup trucks, “mountains” and stinkbugs

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Turning Points

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Today I heard lyrics on the radio that really bugged me. I was listening to Christian radio.  I can’t remember the exact lyrics, but the gist of them were this: Now that I know Jesus, I’m not the same person I used to be. I have several friends who could belt out that song and really mean it, from the depths of their souls.  They were saved as teenagers or as adults, and their lives took a true 180 degree turn.  From promiscuous behavior to purity. From alcoholism to abstaining.  They are living examples of the saving power of the … Continue reading Turning Points