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a little this, a little that
I wouldn’t actually want to live a life that went in a steady straight line. Steady straight lines aren’t really my thing. But this month – this past week – I’ve been bumping and trotting along a hundred little paths. Here are some of those paths and where they’ve been leading: I’m working with two very talented local artists to…
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weekend ramble. (a weekend both peaceful & productive)
You know you’re old when a little yard work on Saturday leaves you with aching muscles and tired shoulders on Sunday. Sometimes I think about owning a home with ten acres and a manicured lawn and four bathrooms and multiple levels. But then I think about all the work it takes to maintain all that. And I’m content with my…
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five finds friday (avett. curl cream. views.)
This week I used one of my favorite pens until it actually ran out of ink. I didn’t lose it. I just actually used it to its very literal potential and capacity and now it’s gone. What a good run. Shockingly enough, I also used up an entire tube of chapstick in the exact same week. As in, I felt…
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That Movie Viewing List
Sometime recently I mentioned that once a week the kids and I have a movie night featuring a movie (or sometimes a show) that I want the kids to watch. These are not the usual just-for-fun films that we find ourselves watching too often. These are movies that serve some other purpose. Many of you emailed or commented that you’d…
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Five Finds Friday (Saylor’s reading and Ryder got a haircut)
We’re beginning to find a rhythm to school and to work again. Which, you know, means that some glitch will happen soon. When my kids were babies, it always seemed like as soon as you figured out a good sleep schedule or as soon as baby learned to nap routinely, then a growth spurt happened or we took a trip…
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my social dilemma
These kids I live with always want to watch movies. Always. But the movies they choose are primarily veneer, shiny, high dollar sort of films. On their own, it seems they seldom click the documentaries, the historical films, the movies that grow their empathy or their understanding. So I started a family movie night (weekly-ish) where the movies are all…
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An Ode to EB White
Classes have fired back up and I have ten students in my World Lit. & Writing class this year. I don’t always follow through on this ideal, but I try to do assignments with my students from time to time. (Not the research papers or critical analysis papers – come on, you guys, I already served my time and paid…
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Five Finds Friday (face cream, Community and Carlos)
The days have been too full and the time has felt too short and I’m beginning to feel familiar again with that line from The Hobbit (I think) about feeling like butter spread too thin over toast. Or something like that. This week I’ll make this list short and sweet because I am currently feeling ambivalent about writing. A word…
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Five Finds Friday.
Somehow, when the calendar says September, I keep thinking it should FEEL like fall already. It does not. We live in the wrong state for it to feel like fall in September. funny Bergen started it. He wrote, printed and posted this sign. (After acquiring a signature from every family member.) Now there are at least two other similar signs…
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mid-week ramble. is that a thing?
Well. It is now. It’s already September and I don’t know anything about anything except that TIME ALWAYS DISAPPEARS. Even when you think it’s going slowly. Our homeschool co op begins this week. Prepping for teaching other kids, therefore, also begins this week. Honestly, that prepping started a while ago. But the routine, week part of prepping is upon us.…
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Lists: The Only Way I Ever (Sometimes) Get Stuff Done
You know, I forgot. I always forget. How challenging multitasking is when the school year officially begins. I mean, it’s hard always. Multi-tasking. Parenting. Life. But this homeschooling gig is a FULL TIME JOB and I already have a FULL TIME JOB. This week I’ll have FOUR teenagers (and I’ll surely post and whine more about that soon so you’ve…
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five finds friday. (celebrating two years in our home & pleated skirts)
Greetings from Recovering From Sunburn Still. Population: 3. Ah. Those freckles and fair hair are not serving us well currently. funny Finding this on my phone. What is happening??? fashionable It’s so funny how styles come and go. And how, if I had saved most of my clothes from the 80s, my daughters would be in heaven about now. But…
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Losing Time: The Cost of Spontaneity This Week
Do you ever have one of those weeks where you just feel as if you’ve lost time? As in, you look around you and you have, you know – basically nothing – to show for your days? I mean, it’s not true. Entirely. There’s been the care and the feeding of the folks I live with. There has been work…
