“One day last week I was at work and I caught myself absently singing ‘Sobbin’ Women’ from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and nearly threw up. Literally, and let me tell you it was unexpected.”
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“It’s always a really awkward question for me: ‘What was your first concert?’ For context, my husband owns a record store. This question is typically asked by someone after we’ve been discussing great hardcore, punk, or indie shows that we’ve recently attended. Well… my first stadium concert was Carman.”
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Oh come on, you’ve thought the same thing.
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Today I realized (aka found it amusing) how few words would have to be changed in Disney’s The Little Mermaid’s song, “Part of Your World,” to make it into a “homeschool edition” of the song.
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“We had hit novels, major motion pictures. We refitted holidays to eliminate pagan (or even neutral) elements, and had our own youth organizations, like AWANA… And, of course, we had our own games.”
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“Grandma S was a quiet, sober, simple, independent woman. Yet using her simple media, she held her four grandchildren (and later two friends of those grandchildren) spellbound as she gave her lessons.”
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“The music was there. It was there as I burned out the bitterness, screaming my tears of pain to the heavens. It was there as I sobbed in my friend’s arms. It was there the nights that I woke up screaming from the nightmares of the pain and the terror.”
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“As Christian homeschoolers, many of us are a part of the larger ‘American evangelical’ cohort. We are the Jesus Freaks: the children of the flannel graph, raised on a healthy diet of Psalty, Veggie Tales, Donut Man, and Carman.”
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