Changes and Announcements

I've wanted to write a blog for quite some time. During Purim this year, I took some time out of the day to write about it, and announced my intention to eventually write about two series, one on video games, and another on homeschooling and public schooling. I have now completed both of these, and I have a number of other topics I'd like to explore, such as Family Worship and the Sabbath.  

     Unfortunately, those will have to wait.  I am continuing my education this year, and these blog posts have taken all summer. Now I am back in school, and something like this simply isn't feasible to continue.  Moreover, if my plans succeed (and they will succeed or fail according to God's good providence), I will be in school the vast majority of the next two years, until I graduate with my Masters of Theological Studies, and so blog posting will be extremely scarce during this time.  So while I may post here and there, and maybe even a small series during my free time, the weekly pace I have established is over for the foreseeable future.

That said, I do have one more blog-related project in store.  While I appreciate the blog as a medium to explore my thoughts, and to make entire series' of posts, for some topics it is not ideal.  I believe my most recent series is one of those.  Therefore I have decided to collect all the posts in my series, "7 Reasons Not to Let the Government Educate your Child", and combine them into a booklet, renamed "Defying Caesar: Why the Government Shouldn't Teach your Kids".  I've edited the chapters to reflect the style of a booklet, and I've added an Epilogue dealing with homeschooling when both parents work.  It will be available both on Apple iBooks and Amazon Kindle for 99 cents.  I’d put it up for free, but Amazon requires at least that much, so I figure I’ll only charge a dollar.  I figure most who buy it will be buying it more to help me than to actually get their hands on the booklet, most of which is already available at this website for free.  I intended to release it next Friday, in keeping with my typical pattern, but in honor of September 11th falling on that day, I will delay its release to Saturday, September 12th.   I also intend on releasing it in print, but that will take longer.  The print edition will cost $5.99.

The link to the iBooks edition is currently inactive, but will activate automatically come September 12:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/defying-caesar/id1037082714?ls=1&mt=11

The Amazon page, by contrast, is already up here with the ability to pre-order the book.

While I know that this blog has extremely small readership, I truly do thank everyone who has taken time out of their week to read my thoughts, and I hope to continue this blog at some point in the future.