Dispatch from Cincinnati

I've been at the Midwest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati since Thursday. This has turned into one of the largest conventions in the country–I heard an estimate of eleven thousand people here. Big busy vendor hall, multiple meeting rooms, scary escalator which was always filled with a constant stream of people feeding into it at the bottom and spilling out at the top. I kept having visions of someone at the top falling backwards like a human domino.

Mom and I got to travel together to t...