Archive for September, 2003

Baseball is turning its back on the kids

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 29th, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I normally wouldn’t disagree with Ed in public like this. Heck, he is a friend. However, he is off-base in today’s column. Ed contends that late starts to playoff games are no big deal because the kids weren’t going to watch anyway. I’ll agree on one l…


Quotes from today’s baseball game

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 20th, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

These quotes are all from the same mother of one of the kids on the baseball team. In most cases they are paraphrased as I wasn’t taking notes. Although I probably should have.
I can’t believe I have to miss the race for a baseball game.
She is referri…


USA Today and Homeschooling

By From http://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 2nd, 2003 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

USA Today has both a pro and anti homeschooling opinion column in today’s paper. The pro article is surprisingly positive, and the anti is exceptionally snarky. Neither column however, really gets it.
Most of us started homeschooling for the usual reas…