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Yesterday we were out of pocket for 22 hours going to Maryland and back to attend our daughter’s Senior Oral at St. John’s College in Annapolis. We had a great day and she did an excellent job. Getting started at 4:30 am we saw dawn’s glow on the GW Bridge, as you can see in … Read more
In January, I posted relief that all our daughter’s graduate school applications were complete. Since then, we found out that she was accepted at five excellent schools, and she set about visiting them for their admitted student days. Last week alone she was on a plane six days out of seven doing just that, and … Read more
Our daughter is rightfully euphoric to have completed her senior essay and turned it in last night. This 42 page paper on Tocqueville’s Democracy in America…
I am very relieved to report that our oldest daughter has now completed all of her graduate school applications.
As discussed on this blog before, I found myself once again at MIT SPLASH weekend: a remarkable weekend of classes for teens. This year I was back to bringing only our
I unearthed a list of these statistics (compiled anonymously) regarding 1906. I felt it was interesting to see how different things were then.
Last night I spent some time helping a homeschooler figure out some great picture books for the first half of world history. Here are the links I rustled up…
Our youngest daughter is taking AP Human Geography this year, and coupled in the photo above with her textbook is the 22nd edition of Goode’s World Atlas.
Today we dropped our son Andrew off at Swarthmore College to start as a freshman. His roommate is an Econ/Finance major from Mississippi. Swarthmore has a…
My niece just finished her first year teaching kindergarten in a top ranked magnet school. Recently, I shopped an awesome library sale for bargain books for her
I was very inspired by this news story about a homeless teen who is graduating High School today and is headed to Harvard in the fall.
We have come to visit our oldest daughter, who is a junior at St. John’s College in Annapolis. We’ve enjoyed staying in her house and meeting her friends.
Well, we have sent an acceptance check to Swarthmore! Our son felt that it was the best school with the most options and opportunity.
One of the schools my son is seriously considering is Dartmouth, so we visited it in New Hampshire today, in sweltering 91 degree April heat.
I hadn’t brought in the mail. This evening, on the way in from a robotics competition, this envelope was discovered where it had been languishing in the mailbox all day without my notice.
I have done something wonderfully right. I have raised readers. My oldest two were early readers. But my youngest started later. Here are the books she just
I have been enjoying playing “Words with Friends” with my sister via our mutual iPhones. She lives in North Carolina and I’m in Connecticut. Some days…