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Has anyone used both of these who has a preference for one over the other? Also, is TRISMS doable without the IEW component? Thanks!

We do lots of soups and stews in the cooler months. "The Voluptuous Vegan" (Myra Kornfeld) is one of our favorite cookbooks. The food is real (no processed or pre-fab ingredients or TVP/TSP). Just thinking about the chickpea crepes makes my mouth water! The recipes can be pretty time-intensive; but in chilly weather, that's a plus. And, of course, if you have a pressure cooker (doesn't everyone?!), you can't go wrong with pretty much anything by Lorna Sass.

:iagree: Yep. I'm sorry to hear it's going to be published less frequently, though.

Has anyone who registered for a free copy of the DVD received it yet? The offer page is no longer up, but I could swear when I registered that the info page said that the DVDs were to be mailed in August.

:seeya: Flaming liberal checking in.

Of course not--because there's no such place. :D

And Carcassonne.

Love that magazine! Yes, that's the tricky part. It's hard to find news sources that are sensitive to kids' perspectives and experience that aren't also dumbed down. I'm not an overprotective mama, but I don't want RAPE screamed at my ds from daily headlines, kwim? :001_unsure:

If you haven't had a chance to look it over yet, be forewarned that Student Daily News has a Christian and blatantly conservative political/social bias.

I'd also love to hear about secular sources for current events/news for the 10-15 crowd. I've been looking for a good, age-appropriate, hard-copy news source for a couple of years now, with no real luck. Both "Time for Kids" and "Weekly Reader" were duds for us (poorly written with lots of pop culture "news" or news bites). I'd love the NYTimes for Kids online--if it weren't online! Does anyone have any news sources for kids that they've really enjoyed?

Here (sometimes).

:lol: LOVE these! Especially the Trekker with the Jedi sign and the kittens (kitten's? ;)) one.

I agree. There but for the grace of the FSM .... I'd surely be relieved that they're leaving; but especially since there are children involved, I don't think I could feel such schadenfreude over the circumstances.

Another atheist here, though I rarely post (or even read) anymore. We seem to be so few around here, and just I don't have the time or patience to wade through the non-GUS threads to find kindred minds.

:iagree: Yes, definitely Powell's.

Has anyone tried the Three Minute Egg? I came across them while looking for a new mat, and I'm intrigued.

And to me and mine.

Can anyone anyone recommend a world atlas/reference similar to "Our Fifty States" from National Geographic? We have several atlases but would like to have something with a "chatty" format, as well.

Stone Soup and Cicada both publish children's stories by children and teens. Best wishes to your dd! :001_smile:

For us, home educating is a lifestyle choice. It's not just about education or socialization or any other specific, listable factors, necessarily.

Generally, if it's too little to be knit up and felted into a small pouch, I ... errr ... well, I keep it in a separate bin from the larger bits of my stash. :blush: I'm a terrible pack rat about my yarn stash, so I'm afraid I'm no help whatsoever. I'm convinced I'll need even the little bits for repairs or trimmings or gauge swatches.

Another vote for brown as the culprit. Red#40 is everywhere. Have you tried SunDrops from Sunspire? They're candy-coated milk chocolate drops like M&Ms, but colored with food-based dyes. I haven't had them in years; but I remember a vaguely carob-y taste to them. Still, they're a decent substitute.

Near enough. :D

I agree, especially in light of nmiora's earlier post about how few scientists appear to actually use "octopi." The vast majority (was it 90%?) use "octopuses." And here is where I get my plug in again for descriptivism and prescriptivism not being mutually exclusive. ;) I can accept as a descriptive linguist that "octopi" occurs in the language--is even in fairly common usage--without accepting it as correct or condoning its use. Come to the dark side, Bill. :001_tt2: