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Tag Archives: reading
Finding the time
Some of the things I love to do, in no particular order: Knit, crochet, sew, write, read, exercise, take photos. My struggle is never against boredom, but against time. I find myself, often, putting off things like a sewing … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Photography, Writing, blogging, books
Tagged boredom, finding time, hobbies, life learning, parenting, photos, reading, sewing, unschooling, writing
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What I read this summer
For the purposes of this list I am measuring summer, not in its official capacity, but in its popular capacity from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Here are the books I read, in the order in which I read them. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Writing, blogging, books
Tagged ally condie, books, Elizabeth George, family, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, headhunters, I am the messenger, in the woods, Jenna Blum, jo nesbo, jon ronson, Jonathan Evison, Labor Day, life learning, Marcus Zusak, memorial day, nazis, neil gaiman, new orleans, New York City, out of the easy, psychopath, reached, reading, ruta sepetys, Siri Hustvedt, summer reading, susan beth pfeffer, tana french, the book thief, The Edge of Nowhere, the graveyard book, the grim reaper, the psychopath test, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, The Summer Without Men, this world we live in, Those Who Save Us
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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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That weird moment when…
…you are reading a murder mystery and during the reveal of the sociopath behind the evil doings you realize it sounds an awful lot like someone with whom you are acquainted. And so, then what? This actually happened to me … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Health, Writing, blogging
Tagged books, family, in the woods, life learning, lightbulb moment, murder mystery, reading, sociopath, tana french
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The cure for “general annoyance syndrome”
What is general annoyance syndrome, you ask? It’s what I had today. It’s probably not real, but they have a syndrome for everything else, so I figured why not? Symptoms? Well, general annoyance, of course, at all people and things. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Parenting
Tagged babysitting, Being alone, date night, diet coke, dumpster, family, fantasize, general annoyance syndrome, knitting, posting photos of food, reading, sewing, tourists, watching movies
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Reading for fun and health
“The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed.” James Joyce – Araby Jhumpa Lahiri, in an article in today’s Sunday Review section of the Times, says that this sentence by Joyce is “..as perfect as a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged james joyce, jhumpa lahiri, john irving, learning, life learning, my life's sentences, NY Times, reading, reading as history, reading for fun, required reading, sunday review, unschooling
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Naturally
Even though I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about learning, one of the good things about life learning is that it happens almost without the kids knowing it, in many cases. Which makes it a more … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged baking, Final Cut, fractions, homeschooling, Iowa Test, learning, life learning, oral, reading, unschooling, Wiley Abbas
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Assumptions & learning
There is a widely held assumption that the only way to learn anything about a topic is to ‘study’ the topic directly. Preferably in an institution set up specifically for the study of defined topics. Because of this, people also … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged assumptions, Ben, curricula, homeschooling, learning, life learning, Maya, reading, unschooling, wendy priesnitz
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Stephen King, and Maya’s book list
When I originally subscribed to the magazine “Entertainment Weekly” it was primarily because Stephen King wrote a regular column for them titled “The Pop of King”. (Clever) I’ve never read any of King’s novels all the way through – they … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Avi, books, Eleven, Elsewhere, Hunger Games, learning, life learning, Maze Runner, Mother Daughter Book Club, reading, Rick Riordan, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, unschooling
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Reading for fun
I spent some time in Barnes & Noble this afternoon, picking up a book for Ben and looking for another for Maya. Both my kids love to read and so we spend an inordinate amount of time in bookstores and … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged books, Collins, Hunger Games, life learning, morals, reading, Rowling, unschooling, writing
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