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Archive for December, 2008

A meme

Just started three weeks of holiday, Hooray! Not going anywhere, but I need some relaxation after the last three months (plus the rest) of continuous financial crisis. So I don’t have enough brain to blog, but here is a meme. I’ve seen this in a few places (Charlotte’s Web, Still life with Cat are who I [...]

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School Acceleration

We’ve recently been having a bit of an acceleration dilemma. When we first went through this process, I remember how thirsty I was for real stories, so I’m going to share mine here.
Chatterboy was born in September. He learned to read pretty much on his own, and around the time he turned four, he progressed [...]

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The comfort of religion

Today I went to the funeral of a some time professional colleague who committed suicide after one too many calls on his margin loans. It was unbearably sad, as he left a young family – four children from 9 to 21, and a school and sporting community that he had been a pivotal part of. [...]

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