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Category Archives: Unschooling
A change of habit
Sometimes it pays to hit the ‘reset’ button. The two weeks we spent in Europe recently was the first time I’ve taken an extended break from blogging since I began over two years ago. It was a little scary because … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Unschooling, Writing, blogging
Tagged agents, blogging, learning, life learning, nespresso machine, Starbucks, unfinished manuscripts, unschoolingnyc.com, writing habit
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Heading West-ish
There is a great exchange in the movie “Last of the Mohicans” where Daniel Day Lewis, aka Hawkeye informs an English officer that he, his brother & father are not scouts for the British but are in fact heading West, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged british accent, cuyahoga river, daniel day lewis, english officer, family, hawkeye, last of the mohicans, life learning, Michigan, pennsylvania, school year, scrubgrass township, stoney lonesome road, susquehanna river, travel, unschooling, upper peninsula, west
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What would Bono do?
I love this story. Someone once asked Bono (who has raised millions of dollars to fight AIDS & other diseases in Africa) how he can work with so many super conservative U.S. Senators? How does he get them to donate … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling, blogging
Tagged aids, bobby kennedy, bono, common ground, dr. king, education, empathy, life learning, mlk, mlk jr., senators, unschooling
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Social life, high school & college
One of the pervasive myths in our society is that high school is the pinnacle of social fun, surpassed only, of course, by college. I hate it when people talk about the “good old days” when they were 17 … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, School, Socialization, Unschooling
Tagged acting, College, diver, high school, kevin s., life learning, lori p., mod, samantha, school, science resource, social life, socialization, tartuffe, unschooling
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Shots of the day
One of the things I’ve wanted to do all summer is walk the entire perimeter of Central Park. We haven’t done it yet, but today Maya and I walked up about 20 blocks of its’ west side, then crossed … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Photography, Unschooling, blogging
Tagged AMNH, Central Park, giant spiders, life learning, naturalists gate, photography, Teddy Roosevelt
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Supporting a creative path
Picked up a great book yesterday, titled, “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, by Austin Kleon. Fostering creativity is something I’ve come to value more and more and for which I will cast … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling, Writing, blogging
Tagged acting, dance, fiction, gymnastics, learning, life learning, movies, nora roberts, photography, ray bradbury, Theater, unschooling, writing
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Lincoln & me
In a previous life I think I must have known Abraham Lincoln. I’m only half-kidding. There is no other explanation for why, when I read about him, hear his speeches read aloud or see even the driest of documentaries having … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged 16th President, abraham lincoln, dinner party, eleanor of aquitaine, gettysburg address, habeus corpus, learning, life learning, lincoln, reincarnation, supreme court, unschooling
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Read All About It!
As you approach the entrance to the Newseum in Washington D.C., you walk by a long row of glass cases. Each of them contains the current front page of a newspaper from every state in the Union and several countries. … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged beheadings, boston american, dewey defeats truman, front pages, great war, headlines, jesse james, learning, life learning, mcelhany & bros, mme caillaux, naps, neosho times, newseum, newspapers, Red Sox, servia, times, travel, unschooling, Washington D.C.
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Living history
Museums are a big part of trips to D.C., but our favorite turned out not to be part of the Smithsonian, whose 19 buildings dominate the landscape around the National Mall. Instead, the place that captivated us, made us … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged 1986, axel springer verlag, berlin, berlin wall, charlottenstrasse, checkpoint charlie, east germany, education, gdr, graffiti, guard tower, learning, life learning, living history, newseum, the american sector, the zone, unschooling, Washington D.C., zimmerstrasse
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