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Monthly Archives: March 2012
On writing
Last month at Maya’s book club we read the book “The Eiffel Tower’s Daughter”. It was chosen primarily because its’ author was 10 years old when she wrote it, and the girls were duly impressed. A published author … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged adjectives, adverbs, book club, editor, eiffel towers daughter, elmore leonard, learning, life learning, margaret atwood, overuse of adverbs, publisher, self-published, short story, Stephen King, unschooling, writing
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Nothing to do
Normally I love days where we have nothing planned; where it is a little bit gray outside and we can just hang out and do whatever. And then, every now and then, a day like that makes me feel like … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged bubble witch saga, facebook, harry potter world, library, life learning, loud sighing, ninja weapons, painting, peel off my skin, run around screaming, unschooling
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Helping hands
With all the recent political rhetoric regarding the state of our nation and the separation of church and state and what kind of nation we are or should be, I’m going to take a sidewise step from my usual topic … Continue reading
Memorial
Had cousins in town today, and spent the afternoon with them. We visited the WTC Memorial and I don’t know what I was expecting but I found it…..sterile. Maybe once the buildings around it take shape and the trees … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged flight 93, learning, life learning, unschooling, wtc, wtc memorial
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Odds n’ Ends
Just some stuff I like, because today was gray and rainy (neither lion nor lamb, and if you follow me on Twitter, you know that I settled on ‘howler monkey with a chip on its’ shoulder’ for how March came … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged best cheer, chinatown, favorite tree, howler monkey, Just to make you smile, life learning, Maya, photos, Stephen Colbert, unschooling
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More on Stop Stealing Dreams…
Yesterday I started reading Seth Godin’s manifesto (or “rant” as he calls it) on education, “Stop Stealing Dreams”. The link to it is here. So far, and I’m only a few pages in, my two favorite quotes are: Culture … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Better Than College, Blake Boles, cooperation not isolation, dale stephens, education, education of millionaires, etsy shop, excel spreadsheets, learning, life learning, michael ellsberg, outliers, Outside the Box, Seth Godin, standardized tests, stop stealing dreams, theatre intern, uncollege, unschooling
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