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  1. 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.

  2. Secular Homeschooling Magazine. It doesn't preach religion at me, it's not half full of advertisements, the articles are informative, funny, thought provoking, etc. Unfortunately it's about to become more sporadic in its publication, but I'll still look forward to getting it whenever she can get them published and sent out!

     

    :iagree: Yep.

     

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

  3. We use The Week magazine

     

    Love that magazine!

     

    They covered hard stuff too in a sensitive manner.

     

    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:

  4. 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?

  5. Well they do sound like they've been quite a pain, but I don't think I'd be laughing or celebrating about anyone losing a house to foreclosure. That's a terrible thing, and it's happening far too often these days. You never know who will be next.

     

    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.

  6. How do you determine when to keep and when to pitch the yarn leftover from a project? I am drowning in scraps of yarn.

     

    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.

  7. Did you miss the posts that explain that using "octopi" as a plural is incorrect usage? :confused:

     

    It's WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!! :D

     

    Bill

     

    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:

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