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Tag Archives: England
March 1 photo of the day
This one won’t win any awards, but I couldn’t pass it up. My March project is being done with my friend Karen, who lives in Yorkshire, England. I have no idea where Keswick is, but when I walked by this … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Photography, blogging
Tagged create, England, friendship, myers of keswick, photo project, photos, the village
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A word about dryers
This afternoon I did laundry. Laundry is not something I generally spend a lot of time talking about (or any time), but it reminded me of one other thing about traveling in Europe. Dryers are in short supply. In theory … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Travel
Tagged button down shirts, dryers, England, extractors, fairy tale, germany, high humidity, ice maker, ironing, life learning, shower, sun dried clothing, travel, wrinkled
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My dinner party friends
You know that game where you are asked, “If you could invite any 5 people in the world to dinner, who would it be?” I love that game but always wind up with about 20 people. Who do you … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Travel, blogging
Tagged anna, austria, belize, brawl, cartwheel, columbus, dinner with friends, England, five friends, germany, gymnastics, karen, life learning, mendy, nan, Tina, vbs
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An intentional lack of ‘structure’
We don’t have a ton of structured stuff going on in our lives. And it’s not by accident. “Kids need structure” is a phrase that is used in defense of all sorts of heinous behavior and I have come … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged art, Ben, cartoon drawing, chicago, control, drawing for 50 cents, England, history, Indonesia, JCC, kids need structure, learning, life learning, Maya, new zealand, Phillippines, photography, Spanish, Spring, unschooling, video chat
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Taking a page from Heather
That would be Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com. Lately she’s been publishing posts that are full of links to neat things she’s found on line. Tonight I’m doing something similar, except my stuff is related to unschooling. (Surprise!) A few weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Armchair Travel with Martha, Blog Talk Radio, Columbus Day, DIY, England, France, homeschooling, Josie's, learning, life learning, Maker Faire, Martha Jansen, Rebecca Douglas, unschooling
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Time to wake up
[The School Inspector] came marching into the kitchen, saying in an exasperated tone, “Now what’s this all about? Why aren’t your children in school?” “Well,” I said, and put some coffee on to heat, stalling for time. “The reason they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged 1960's, 1975, education, education authority, England, kids lib, learning, life learning, montessori, Patricia Joudry, playwright, steiner, Summerhill, unschooling, Waldord
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Andrew Penman disappoints
When we were in England last Fall, I picked up the book School Daze: Searching for a decent state education by Andrew Penman. Penman, a respected investigative journalist for The Daily Mirror (or so his bio states) writes about his … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Andrew Penman, England, faith schools, Graham Badman, home education, learning, life learning, Mark Field, Radio 4, school daze, state schools, The Daily Mirror, unschooling
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