{"id":8535,"date":"2008-05-09T03:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T07:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2008-05-09T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T15:08:20","slug":"time-flies-when-youre-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8535","title":{"rendered":"TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE HAVING FUN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Welcome to my blog. This blog is dedicated to homeschooling and other education articles that I find interesting. It may also include some Delaware-specific “edustuff”. Forewarned and all that. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, when that post was published comments were an only to-be-wished-for feature at blogspot. Perma-links hadn’t even been invented. Yeah, we’re older than dirt.<\/p>\n

Over the years the blog “theme” has certainly drifted away from being a strictly homeschool edublog. That’s partially because I started blogging around the same time we started homeschooling, so I was still a newbie and very much radicalized. But also, I think, homeschooling itself in the last six years has become so mainstream and we’ve won all of the legal battles that this blog was designed to chronicle. That’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

So the blog has morphed from being a somewhat DE-centric edu-blog to whatever it is today. Along the way the name has changed twice. The original thoroughly boring name that I literally came up with during the blogspot registration, Homeschool & Other Education Stuff, was pretty accurate. During the cyber charter wars (CCANHS!) I got frustrated with the continual misuse of the word “homeschool” and changed<\/a> it to Home Education & Other Stuff. The tagline was still “A libertarian leaning edu-blog.” Sometime a couple of years ago, I switched the “official” name to HE&OS and put “Home Education & Other Stuff” in front of the tagline. Finally, in response to a flaming email that my support for universal health coverage was anti-libertarian, the tagline was changed to what it is today.<\/p>\n

The stats from those early days are funny, too. There are more than a few days with zero page views.<\/p>\n

And, finally, a shout out to the longest-time participant here at Homeschool & Other Education Stuff<\/strike> Home Education & Other Stuff<\/strike> HE&OS. Traci’s been here since before the start, when this was an email distribution list of a dozen homeschoolers in DE. Hi, Traci! Thanks for hanging with me.<\/p>\n

And thanks to the rest of you HE&OSers. Without your comments and participation, this blog would have died an uncommented-upon death long ago.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Based on Don’s comment, I’ve changed the name and tagline once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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