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A comment from a combox thread: Scotch Meg, While I am generally supportive of home schooling, it seems to me that if you want children educated in a common culture people should rather be boosting church schools, which of course were a big part of the Catholicism of yore. Home schooling produces yet more individualists…

I forgot to tell you that yesterday, when I walked into the Apple store with my 10 year old Matthew, and I beheld all the twentysomething nerdling staffers pootling about, I felt about a billion years old. “Can I help you, sir?” this one staffer asks me. “Um, yeah, said I, I’m trying to find…

I’m hearing that ticket sales for the fundraising concert for my sister, Ruthie Leming, are quite brisk. Great! People are so good to my family. Yesterday, a group of third and fourth graders showed up at Ruthie’s house to work in her yard. Isn’t that something? Ruthie, a Southern woman to the fingertips, is frustrated…

Actual post-bedtime story dialogue last night: “Dad, I have a secret for you.” “What, Nora?” (Stage whisper:) “You have to take me to England!” All I can figure is it’s Paddington wot done it. Nora, who is three, sleeps with the Paddington Bear doll I brought her back from England last summer. Given how she’s…
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