My family discovered OtR when my daughter's work-study boss gave her a bootleg copy of "Drunkard's Prayer" that had been given to her. My daughter loved it, brought it home from college, and we "legalized" it by buying our own (and then ripping it onto our home computer for easy listening).

You can find my posts under "imametaphor" at www.xanga.com, and an eponymous website (www.fredputnam.org) is under construction.

I love to read, make music, and talk about what I'm/we're reading; just finished teaching a year-long lit class for high school homeschoolers (Augustine's Confessions, Divine Comedy, Faerie Queene, up to CSLewis (Perelandra, Great Divorce), MacDonald (Phantastes), and Charles Williams (Descent into Hell)). This was my third year teaching lit (poetry two years ago, and novels last year), and my last, since our family will all be in college this fall.

I have to write two graduation speeches for our younger daughter and her boyfriend's homeschool graduation parties this weekend, so this is a quick hello.

this lit class sounds very interesting!

it's nice to know other hsers are enjoying the beautiful music of otr.
welcome to the orchard!

Welcome to the orchard from a homeschool success

well, actually, I was only homeschooled through 8th grade . . .and then my Senior year . .

but I always admire people who put a lot of effort into homeschooling . . I know it made a huge

difference with me . . .and as I'm sure you're well aware . . Harvard and Yale- according to a rather recent news story . . .are looking at homeschoolers in a brand new way thanks to our " home-grown genuis "

Good luck on those graduation speeches!!!

~Rachel

welcome. glad you found our little oasis.

Welcome! Glad to have you here... Look forward to reading more of your posts. Excuse me whilst I run off and look up the word "eponymous"

Yo John, tis the new millenium:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


And R.E.M had an album of the same name a few years back

hi