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Tag Archives: unschooling
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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Impressions of D.C.
I’ll say this for Washington D.C. It is possibly the cleanest city I’ve ever been in, bar none. Maybe that’s because Congress is currently on vacation. Our almost three days there were filled with sightseeing – the museums, the monuments, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged abraham lincoln, Ben, congress, disneyworld, grace coolidge, jerrold nadler, learning, life learning, lincoln bedroom, macro shots, Maya, photography, the capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Smithsonian, the Vietnam War Memorial, the White House, travel, unschooling, Washington D.C.
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My so-called “radical” life
Here’s the deal. Maya was born in a birthing center and Ben was born at home. No drugs, no stirrups. I nursed them both past the age of three. The doctor we see practices natural medicine and neither of my … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs, Education, Family, Life Learning, Parenting, Unschooling
Tagged abiding love, anti-abortion, birthing, birthing center, civil society, deepak chopra, gun violence, life learning, love thy neighbor, mass murder, midwife, my so-called radical life, natural medicine, nursing, NYC, pacifist, parenting, pro-death penalty, radical, unschooling, what would jesus do
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Nashville
No, not Tennessee, though there is an Opry House. But it’s the “Little” one. Nashville Indiana is located about 17 miles west of Columbus Indiana in the hills of Brown County. We go there every time we are in Indiana … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Travel
Tagged caramel apples, family, IN, jb goods, leather bracelets, life is good, Little Nashville Opry, miss moonpennies emporium, Nashville, photos, t-shirts, unschooling
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Photos of the day
Possibly one of my favorite things about this particular trip? The great photo ops. Here is today’s selection: Similar to most adventure sports, SCUBA or “Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus” also comes with certain safety measures which professional viagra if … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Travel
Tagged family, flowers, Indiana, life learning, photo ops, photography, sunsets, unschooling
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“Seeking a Friend”, “People Like Us” & a few more
Way back in November of 2010 I wrote a blog post about some movies I like. I then went on a bit of a frenzy and wrote a list of 100 (!) movies that I would recommend, complete with … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Movies
Tagged chris pine, dreaming of joseph lees, elizabeth banks, keira knightley, life learning, michelle pfeiffer, movies, people like us, seeking a friend for the end of the world, steve carrell, to rome with love, unschooling, woody allen
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