Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . .
Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek.
This virtual journey for all ages from National Geographic, is my pick of the week. The following links are either new discoveries or sites that didn't make it into my newspaper column because of space constraints. Ultra-organized classrooms seem practically to run themselves. Please let me know if any of these addresses have changed. You CAN let your children surf safely while preventing them from becoming an online statistic with Cyber Patrol, the world's most trusted Internet filtering software.