(Along the gorgeous gulf of Mexico)
You know, I was in Florida two weeks ago, and there were just so many things which jolted me that I started to write them down. One thing I couldn’t help noticing is the disparity there between nature and humans. There are just these amazing species of birds and flowers [...]

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Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. My favorite gift was so low tech. It was the above paper copy of my blog, all 3 and a half years of it, every word on 400 pages (pictures and comments not included). It’ll give me something to read when I’m old and the internets is something else [...]

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(Fishing in the Gulf last week)
Not to be outdone by the New York Times article, the Sun Times ran a piece today on unschooling. It is very funny and exciting how any article about homeschooling seems to have at least 10 people I know quoted in it nowadays. This article is very positive, somewhat well-researched, [...]

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Merry Christmas, happy holidays, jouyeux Noel, happy Yule or Kwanzaa and or Hanukkah to you all.

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(Dang, we were just sitting on this beach yesterday, and now we’re back in winter wonderland Chitown.)
(This blog post has been cross-posted on my other blog Chicago Homeschool Habitat. I just couldn’t decide which blog deserved it more. But there is another picture on top in case you’re curious.)
It may be a little late, but [...]

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Haven’t been by lately. See, I finally-after 3 long years- completed my old,clunky journal and started a new one. I’m so in love with the portability of my new journal that I’ve been taking it everywhere. It has been fulfilling my compulsive need to write. Now, unless Santa provides a wireless laptop, I’m just not [...]

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(What the Chicago fire might have looked like to an alarmed seagull in 1871)
Recently there has been a lot of talk about what my children truly want for the holidays. I think I might have mentioned in previous years the list was things like “A pink bunny.” Period. This year they have not failed once [...]

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Recently I received a review copy of a very rare thing. It was an illustrated children’s fiction book featuring homeschooled kids. Apparently, the author Scott Stroud’s kids had noticed (as have mine) that nearly all books on the market nowadays involve kids in school settings doing school-like things. So he set out to write a [...]

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I swear, every week now since early November I’ve been getting this in my mailbox. I have never ordered pears for anyone for x-mas, and I can only imagine the look on my mother-in-law’s face if she opened up a box of luscious juicy pears from us for the holidays. The expression would be something [...]

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