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This past weekend I had the rare opportunity to swim in an indoor/outdoor pool at Pheasant Run while feeling my hair freeze. As if that weren’t enough, I was attending the 11th Annual In-Home Conference with a hundred or more of my best friends. We’ve been going for years and have [...]

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You are a good friend, and to ring in the new year, I’d like to present you with this mixed tape I’ve carefully crafted for you. All of my feelings for life and friendship and love in the year 2007 can be expressed in this most awesome playlist of modern tracks. Some of you [...]

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(I call it V-tree.)
I have to admit, when it comes to blogging, I’m all hot air. But some people actually DO stuff. Useful, techy stuff that I can’t imagine doing.  So, hats off to you at Kenwardtown.
On the twisted X-mas front, if you’ve run out of cute holiday pictures of your children and you have [...]

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Here’s an article I bummed from Get In, Hang On. It is about how colleges are accepting homeschoolers, and their changing conceptions about homeschoolers. Encouraging and you might get some ideas how to help your teen prepare form the article based on what the admissions dudes are saying.

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Nobody tagged me for this meme, I just took it from Clay over at Beyond School, which is a very awesome blog by a high school English teacher.
Before you read, remember, tag yourself if the thought of expounding on these topics interests you and keep in mind that as an unschooler the word teacher doesn’t [...]

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(We call him ‘Leather Pants Poi Guy’)
The back-to-homeschool flutter is starting again. Each year it manifests itself around the back-to-school flutter, which isn’t strictly necessary. Every year I try to resist the angst, the excitement, the promise of new adventures, the fear of untold car mileage, but I am helpless to the general hubbub and [...]

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(One thing I did last week instead of blogging. Took the dynamic duo to the Art Institute to admire great art and try to draw it. This charmed some old Europeans and irritated some young ones. Because Europeans appear to be the main visitors at the art museum as far as I could tell. Oh, [...]

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“Schooools out for summer (bum,bum,bum,bum)
schooooools out forEVER! Out for summer, out for fall. We might not go back at all.”
-Alice Cooper
We’ve been humming that one a lot lately. Anywho, as your little ones are preparing to bike, swim and jaunt through their days with even less structure than you’ve been barely able to artificially impose [...]

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