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Parents in Nashville are receiving an envelope from the Education Consumers Foundation. I suggest you be on the lookout for it and don't toss it thinking it's junk mail. What you'll find inside is some enlightening information regarding Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Via Katie Allison Granju:

DuPont Co. has joined a state initiative to build the first pilot-scale biorefinery in the U.S. that would take corncobs and switchgrass grown on Tennessee farms and convert the biomass into ethanol for fuel.

I am laying here in the comfort of my own bed. It’s good to be home.

I am still amazed at Dupont Forest in NC. Here's a fiddlehead fern I found beside one of the waterfalls...

This is a yard beast from the house we stayed at near Brevard, NC. We were 3 miles from the entrance to the Dupont Forest, which has a gazillion trails for hiking, running, and horse riding, much like what we have here in Tennessee at the...Uh, the...(Hey??? I don't think we have anything like that!!! WTH Not?)

I've overdosed on waterfalls and trails on exposed rock marked by kairns and the

The school bus showed up 30 minutes late today.  It was 12 degrees.  Her excuse?  The heater didn’t work so “they” wouldn’t let her leave until it was fixed.  Hello?  Does that make sense to you?  The kids and I were beyond freezing.  And 5 minutes before the bus came, the kids told me that yesterday some girl on the bus told them she had a butcher knife in her backpack.  God, this is elementary school!  And one of the “better” ones, so I’m

I could have written every word of this endorsement of Fred Thompson. Some excerpts: