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Category Archives: Life Learning
Coney Island
Maya & I, along with a couple of her friends, went out to Coney Island today. While they spent the afternoon on the rides, I spent it armed with my camera. It’s been years since we were there, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Photography, holidays
Tagged astroland, boardwalk, Coney Island, cyclone, life learning, lunapark, Maya, photos, shabby chic, wonder wheel
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Happy that the kids are (still) home
If you are on Facebook and spent any time scrolling through today’s activity, you can’t have helped but notice the large numbers of parents openly rejoicing about the fact that they once again can ship their kids off to school … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Life Learning, Parenting, School, Unschooling
Tagged back to school, Bahamas, education, facebook, family, life learning, minecraft, parenting, parents rejoicing, raising money, sewing, skype, unschooling
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Wandering
Holiday weekends are a good time to be a resident in NYC. The streets are noticeably emptier and quieter. I suppose tourists can be found in bulk around 42nd St. and at places like Coney Island, but otherwise you … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Photography
Tagged family, holiday weekends, life learning, New York City, NYC, photos, unschooling
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Let’s get real
As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized some things about myself that were kind of shocking in that they stood in direct opposition to the image I’d always held of myself in my brain; an image born of years of cultural … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Parenting, School, blogging
Tagged academics, california, education, english, family, german, hate school, homeschooling, learning, life learning, minecraft, travel, unschooling, vidcon
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Scarf-mania
Wow, lately this is like my sewing and book blog…. Today it’s more sewing, as in scarves made from old t-shirts. Infinity scarves, though that really doesn’t matter when they are made of t-shirt material… The first one was assembled … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning
Tagged batik, family, life learning, marina and the diamonds, photos, recycling, scarves, sewing, t-shirts, upcycling
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Shopping and a Dance
Today Maya and I decided to go thrift store shopping, and I had the genius idea of venturing to the East Side (!) to look up the thrift stores I used to visit 20+ years ago during my brief stint … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Photography
Tagged clothes, family, goodwill, life learning, Lincoln Center, modern dance, paul milstein pool, photos, thrift stores
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The market bag
A few weeks ago I re-organized my sewing area and discovered a pattern I purchased at least two years ago that had been collecting dust in a drawer. With all due respect to Yoyomama Designs, part of the reason I … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning
Tagged create, life learning, market bag, marketing, Maya, pucci, pucci print, sewing, yoyomama designs
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Because of the heat
First I’d like to start with a big Thank You! to Willis Carrier, who invented modern air-conditioning. Honestly I don’t know how people survived NYC summers before A/C. It is just too damn hot. Because of this we must … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Writing, blogging, books
Tagged A/C, air conditioning, beach read, books, Elizabeth George, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, In the Wood, Jenna Blum, Jonathan Evison, life learning, Paul Auster, reading, Siri Hustvedt, tana french, The Edge of Nowhere, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, The Summer Without Men, Those Who Save Us, Willis Carrier, writing
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Indiana recap
For those of you who don’t see all the random photos I post on Facebook, we’ve spent the last 10 days in Indiana on my parent’s farm. It’s always a good time. Last year they had a crippling … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Parenting, Photography, Travel, Unschooling, holidays
Tagged bikes, elephant ears, fair, family, flowers, Indiana, kitten, life learning, paint war, parenting, photos, play, potato launcher, rain, summer, sunsets, unschooling
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40 Minutes
Recently the Pilates studio I’ve been going to every week for the past 14 years moved from their location on 23rd Street in Chelsea to a building on 3rd Avenue between 55th and 56th St. My Pilates commute had always … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning
Tagged Carnegie Hall, East Side, Hearst, LaGuardia High School, life learning, Lincoln Center, pilates, Rue 57, Tourneau
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