Editors, of course, pay a lot of attention to words, though some eurekas take longer to develop than they should. Reading to my youngest from The Story of Science again tonight, I realized that “matter” – the basic structural component of the universe – has its roots in the Latin word “materia,” which is derived [...]
You might be interested in a book I’ll be sharing with my news-addicted eldest homeschooled-to-college son, Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy by Alex Jones. My son, who is currently majoring in Latin American studies, gets much of his news from the online sites of major news organizations, with many forays into original sources. He’s [...]
Lissa has posted the Summer Carnival of Children’s Literature over at The Bonny Glen. Those of you who include book reviews on your blogs may be especially interested in her first category, which includes some posts about how the FTC is looking at bloggers who review books and other products when financial or other incentives [...]
Going through boxes and files at the Home Education Magazine office, I found the original notebooks and edited manuscripts of several books we published, by Linda Dobson, Agnes Leistico, Cafi Cohen and others. I found photos of Mark and I speaking at conferences from New York to California, and marveled at how young we looked two decades ago. I found our complete collection of Homeschooler’s Weekly, a popular little publication we produced for a couple of years in the early 1990’s.
