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Category Archives: Life Learning
March 5 & 6 photos of the day
Whoops, yesterday just slipped right by! So today you’ll be entertained with not one, but two photos. Aren’t you excited? The first is cheating, really. (Maybe I could do a blog post titled “Cheating your way to great photos”!) … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Photography, blogging
Tagged Ben, create, march, photo of the day, photography, photos, subway station, wally
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March 4 photo of the day
Photographer Amy Arbus spent some of her time during the 1980′s photographing unique individuals in the East Village. Most of the time the people were not famous, but those who caught her eye and had a flair. The portraits … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Photography, Writing, blogging
Tagged Amy Arbus, Leica Gallery, life learning, march, photo of the day, photos
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The Bronx
Tomorrow I start a photo project with my friend Karen, who lives in Yorkshire, England. Every day we will post a “photo of the day”, for the entire month of March. We did the same thing a few years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Photography, blogging
Tagged bronx skyline, create, flavor, life learning, nyc boroughs, photography, photos, the Bronx
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Free range in the city
Today Maya and her friends attended a Valentine’s Day dance. Most of the kids who went were either fellow homeschoolers or former homeschoolers. I suspect the age range was something like 11-18, with a handful of adults there … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Parenting, Safety, Socialization
Tagged dance, family, Free Range, independent, life learning, Maya, out at night, Valentines Day
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Belated thanks, for the music and memories
We were out of town last week when I got word that Pete Seeger had died. At 94, this should not have come as a great shock, but it did anyway, because two months earlier he’d been leading all … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning
Tagged Arlo Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, family, life learning, Pete Seeger, Singing along
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It was a very good year
Someone I know recently posted the following link on Facebook: It’s a great clip. Emma Thompson (who has definitely been the highlight of the awards shows THIS year just by being her outrageous, humorous self) is funny and wonderful, but … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling, blogging
Tagged 12 Years a Slave, 1995, 1996 Golden Globes, American Hustle, August: Osage County, Braveheart, Dead Man Walking, Disney, Emma Thompson, Frozen, Get Shorty, Her, life learning, movies, Mr. Holland's Opus, Nebraska, Philomena, Pulitzer, Sense & Sensibility, The American President, Tracy Letts
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“It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)” – REM
Lately there has been a spate of posts and articles about how smartphones are destroying our society. They are causing people to disconnect and to lose the ability to connect with other human beings, at least in person. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Learning, Life Learning, Socialization
Tagged common courtesy, family, life learning, parenting, REM, smartphone addiction, smartphones, snapchat, the end of the world as we know it
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So long Mayor Bloomberg – did we ever really know you?
Mayor Bloomberg officially left office yesterday after 12 years as NYC’s head honcho. His tenure as mayor was a mixed bag, from my point of view. On the one hand, he appointed a Dept. of Transportation head halfway through … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, blogging
Tagged bill deblasio, elitist, life learning, Mayor Bloomberg, NYTimes, policy change, politics
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So long 2013, and thanks for a great year!
Maya told me yesterday that 2013 was her ‘best year ever’, and looking back I have to agree that it was a good one, thus totally debunking the myth that 13 is an unlucky number. (In our family we … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling, Writing, blogging, books, holidays
Tagged Arlo Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, catching fire, cosmo, family, great big world, happy new year, learning, life learning, lucky 13, movies, Pete Seeger, say something, unschooling, wally, writing
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Lost History
Today we visited the grave of my paternal great-grandparents Carrie and Allen Brougher, born in 1862 and 1848, respectively. Next to their tombstone was another, smaller one that I would not have noticed had my Mom not pointed it … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Writing, blogging
Tagged family, great grandparents, life learning, lost history, serepta crittenden, tombstone, unwed mother
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