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Who was your last kiss with? Was it memorable? My son and I are in Pennsylvania visiting a dear, dear, dear friend of mine named Julie. Jules and I have been friends for about 14 years. We met through a St. Louis homeschool group so long ago and simply enjoyed one another so much that we have remained friends all of these years, though she and her family moved to Pennsylvania about five years ago. Our sons are also very good friends. Julie is a very unique woman. She and I are so very very different, primarily in our social comfort levels. I'm hugely comfortable in social situations and Julie would rather not. (Though every single party I've ever been at with her she is delightful!) But her preference is that she can't even . I say this mostly because she has never hugged me or outwardly expressed her love for me. But I have always know it anyway.  I usually say, I love you and I know that you love me. She'll shrug and say yeah . A few weeks ago Julie got news that she ...

Every time you click onto a blog you open yourself up to another person's thoughts, philosophies, biases, areas of interest, non interest, to their efforts, their hidden efforts, to their deeply held opinions, to their unspoken ideas, to their choices, to their struggles, to their celebrations, to their musings...to their LIFE. Welcome to mine.

atheist parent I'm thinking about starting back up with this blog. Expect a bit of a redesign and less focus on homeschooling and more on just ...being . Stay tuned . 😀

atheist blog You are invited to my new blog Carin' Loathen'. I decided to start a new blog in an effort to keep this blog a generally unmuddied blog about atheist parenting and homeschooling. I enjoy blogging, I love my friends and readers, and I want to expand the topics and issues that I write about. I will feel freer on the new blog to stray from my main niche and to explore anything else. And that sounds fun. As for the title of my new blog: I have an unusual name, a name that sounds a great deal like the words Carin' and Loathin', so I decided to use that. Kind of weird, kind of silly. Kind of fitting. Please meet me over there!

atheist blog Dear Friends, It is time to end this blogging journey I have been taking with you. I sincerely thank you for your time and friendship and good will. I have had the honor of meeting several people who read my blog and we've become friends and that's just so...cool. Karen  You are invited to my new blog Carin' Loathin' at carinloathin.blogspot.com  

atheist blog My daughter is in college right now at a local community college and my son will be starting in January. I took a class this summer and I will take another class this January at the same time as John. SO I've been on campus this fall for a number of reasons. I LOVE being on a college campus. Can I please be a Forever College Student? First of all because the vibe is so fresh and exciting and fun and second because the people are so interesting! And Third because I love to learn things. These three people in the pic are just a few of the really amazing people I met and talked to the other day when I was helping at the brand new Freethinker's Club on campus. You should  meet the two guys who started the club, Kyle and Evan: WOW. These two young men are so amazing. I love seeing their desire to do things coupled with their can do attitudes coupled ( tripled? ) with their actual actions to make things happen. Very admirable. Kyle Liz and John and I have talked about i...

atheist blog What a waste of time. I was looking at some Patheos posts tonight and I can see that just about anybody can post just about anything. People are posting opinion pieces that read more like uninformed rants than researched and educated articles. I'm glad I don't generally waste my time there. Even though I had flipped around and skimmed several posts, it wasn't until I got to a piece on homeschooling that I decided to say something here about it. The author of the article is Bert Nobody simply repeating the usual nonsense about socialization, how badly-prepared parents are to teach their children, and, my favorite, how parents already have five years of brainwash time for their kids and now those kids need their parents to lose control of their minds and send them to school, damn it. I'm going to give the author the benefit of the doubt that he is specifically referring to politics and religion, but I think I'm being generous there. But still, what a cro...