Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The Saturday Review of Books is up over at Semicolon.  If you are wondering what others are reading, and  whether or not you might enjoy their choices, this is a great Saturday stop.  When I listed my review, there were already 22 reviews listed!  Check it out!

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto, is a book I’ve wanted to read for several years.  On my birthday this year, my good friend Pam blessed me with this book (along with several others).  While I didn’t see eye to eye with Mr. Gatto on every point, the…

I’ve been hesitant to post my home keeping schedule for a couple of reasons.   First, a woman’s home keeping schedule is unique to her, her family and her home.  No two of us are the same, nor are our families or homes the same.  For that reason, my home keeping schedule will not work for…

Melody asked a good question about knives in the comments of  the travel tissue post, and a further comment she made about buying her knives at yard sales got me thinking….. I decided that a follow up post on knives would be a good idea. The knives that I own and love, that I know…

We were blessed with another lamb on Tuesday!  A single birth this time (twins are the norm), but this little guy is big!!!  The new lamb and his mother are in the foreground of this picture, and our twin Valentine’s Day lambs and their mother are just to the left.  The Tuesday lamb is as…

Copper sat down to sharpen a couple of my knives this morning, and it occurred to me how valuable a good,sharp kitchen knife can be.  A good quality kitchen knife is a good investment.  The majority of my knives are over 28 years old.  My favorite knife is probably closer to 50 years old!!  All of…

“Everyone is sick!”  That is exactly what the nurse practitioner told me Saturday afternoon.  That certainly seems to be the case in my own family.  My thirteen year old has a terrible cold, complete with head ache and burning eyes.  The eight year old has been sick, off and on, for almost a month.  I…

Since I painted my dining area wall red, the red roses I’ve kept in my old scale have not been quite as pretty.  In fact, the red roses against the red wall were driving Dani nuts!  I bought the roses last year a week or so after Valentine’s Day for 90% off the $4.99 price…

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Before I begin, I want to tell you that I had made up my mind to not like this book.  I don’t know why. Perhaps I was put off by the fact that the author is a single, younger woman. That certainly smacks of pride now, doesn’t it?  Ugly, but I’m trying to be honest.…