(Frankfurt, Kentucky by Daniel Boone’s grave.)
Jack Frost has laid claim to our phone line, thus making my DSL somewhat dodgy and a brave technician is supposed to come out and repair (ie, scrape off ice?) it today. But I snuck on somehow this morning just to remind you all that it is time for [...]

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UnschoolingVoices #11 is up right now over at An Unschooling Life. Check it out and leave those bloggers some comments! If you are new to this, visit here for details and previous postings. Meanwhile, if you are ready to post something yourself, I’m happy to announce that I’ll be hosting Unschooling Voices #12 right here [...]

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Unschooling Voices #9 has been launched! Lots (33 to be exact) posts about the unschooling life. Go forth and read. Here’s my post, in case you missed it originally.

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“Art is the daughter of freedom.” Friedrich Schiller
(This post has been submitted to the May Unschooling Voices, where the topic is “How has unschooling changed you?”)

I’ve been reading up on the philosophers lately in a lovely fiction book called Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. It is the kind of book we all like to give [...]

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(My cousin actually took this pic, which she calls the boy’s zombie video face, but I had to share it since I can never capture his daddylonglegs spider length eyelashes quite so well. )
Unschooling Voices #8 is up and rarin’ to be read. Might I add that one of the topics is about technology and [...]

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(Our shrinky dink experiments of late)
For the March Unschooling Voices:
Under no circumstances can we rise before 7:30am.
Neat experiments such as wild fire ants in the kitchen, dissecting fake frogs, making our pupils dilate, making shrunken hearts on plastic and baking scones from scratch fuel our desire to continue learning at home.
Simple routines and rituals keep [...]

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