This year we’re adding some structured learning on weekdays. Both boys have notebooks to record their progress this year. They both have math and writing in their notebooks. Aiden being able to vote in 18 months, we’re studying science with a college professor on The Great Courses Plus and reading together Robert Reich’s new memoirContinue reading “Mixing some homeschooling with our unschooling.”
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Turn of the century memoirs, “Five Boyhoods”
Five Boyhoods, published in 1962, is five short memoirs written by men who grew up in sequential decades starting in the 1880s and ending in the 1940s with John Updike. The short memoirs give fascinating insights to what it was like to grow up a boy in America a century ago. The first one revealsContinue reading “Turn of the century memoirs, “Five Boyhoods””
Legoland in brief
It took a day to recover from our day at Legoland, but we had a blast. They reopened the kid slide area at the water park, and both my sons got to play on it together. They have such a great relationship, especially for being 8 years apart. Anti-depressants cause heat sensitivity, and I gotContinue reading “Legoland in brief”
Just Like My Mother, After All.
Picture it: Roanoke Memorial Hospital. May 9th 1981. It’s a Tuesday morning in the Southwestern Virginia valley town. A 19 year old holds her baby girl for the first time, after three days of agonizing, exhausting, medically hindered and then “vacuum-assisted” delivery of the 9 pound, 15 ounce bundle. A ray of sunlight falls onContinue reading “Just Like My Mother, After All.”
Adventures of an Earthborn Alien 