Another day creeps by in this leafy green city. A blocked writer does anything and everything except write. To the point where she actually bakes two loaves of zucchini bread with her excess vegetables form the veggie co-op she just joined. She shuns her ironic collection of aprons while baking and instead thinks about what [...]

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(quite uncanny)
I don’t really have much to say. I just needed to share that picture. I see so many similarities between them that I’m going to need to netflix the dang movie now.
Meanwhile, here’s an memelike thing.
So, in case you were wondering, here is that list of things every good homeschooling mother worth her salt [...]

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(a wildflower in the Rockies. I was the dork taking pictures of every flower)
Today I am most honored by Sage of Quirky Nomads who did a reading of my essay “Where’s the manual?” on her podcast. Might I add that she read it far more expressively than I would have been able to. You can [...]

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(Only last june we were strolling thru here)
I read a “This homeschooling thing is really catching on” article about once a week now it seems. Andrea sent me this one today. What makes this one so unique is that I know almost everyone mentioned in the article. How bizarre! And oh yeah, by the way, [...]

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I’ve been meaning to confess. Last month, we were at a homeschooling conference, in the hotel pool, having a blast. Except, the boy (who is 5) kept having so much boisterous fun that he was a menace of splashing and flailing limbs to the people around him. This is quite common for him. You might [...]

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From the Tao te Ching
“When the master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised. If you don’t trust the people you make them untrustworthy. The master doesn’t talk, he acts. When his work [...]

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(This picture is from last April. Sigh)
Last night I finally did the public blog talk to my homeschooling group. It felt something like I imagine it would feel sitting my parents down and telling them I had secretly been a transvestite all these years and that’s why the obsession with high heeled cowboy boots. That [...]

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T’was a gorgeous spring day and my kinsman and I went geocaching in the woodlands. Can you tell I’m reading a King Arthur book lately? Anyway, we love geocaching because it always introduces us to the hidden natural spots all around us. Sometimes we even rediscover the history or ecology of some parks and locales [...]

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Hey, here is that list I promised last week about cool unschooling blogs. I send a hearty hello to members of my homeschooling group who have come here via a link or my upcoming talk on blogs. Hi. I bet you didn’t know I sat around writing down my innnermost thoughts about, uhm, stuff you [...]

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Today the girl and her friend were angling for an afternoon of play together. (Can we please stop saying “playdate” now that they’re not toddlers? I really think the word compartmentalizes the whole concept of spontaneous play too much, and among the potty trained it sounds so infantile ,along the lines of the word poo.)
The [...]

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