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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Before I Knew I Was Autistic…
I used to believe so many things, before I figured out I was autistic, before the diagnosis. I believed I suffered so I could help others heal. I believed I was psychic because I’d given thousands of readings over the decades, and smashed it out of the park for all but a handful that IContinue reading “Before I Knew I Was Autistic…”
Conservatives and Liberals live in different worlds.
I think I figured out a way for me to understand why conservatives and liberals tend to parent so differently. Most conservatives are blue collar workers from their teen years to death, and many of them joined the military as teens. Most of them started their families in their teens or young twenties. Our brainsContinue reading “Conservatives and Liberals live in different worlds.”
How I Let Go and Let God
My mother died when I was 12, and Dad dated a psychic after she died. That psychic foresaw me becoming a writer and a tarot reader. And my 13 year old brain accepted the program. My suffering meant something. I was going to help people tell their stories, and share mine so others wouldn’t feelContinue reading “How I Let Go and Let God”
Reflecting on my teenage self; she didn’t know she really was alien.
Thinking about myself as a teen college student and feeling like I should send some professors apologies…lol If they are still alive. Sadly, most of my favorites have died. I thought I sounded excited when I sounded arrogant. I thought, when they said treat them as peers, that I should treat them the way theContinue reading “Reflecting on my teenage self; she didn’t know she really was alien.”
My Dragonkin Friend and an Adventure in the Park
When Aiden was six, a friend of mine was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She called me to ask me to help her with her autistic children. I had no idea I was autistic too, which is hysterical to me now. One afternoon her 8 year old missed the bus, and I had to take hisContinue reading “My Dragonkin Friend and an Adventure in the Park”
A New Voice In My Head Emerged This Morning.
Her name is Sheila and her favorite color is amethyst. I tried to type this story up earlier, and had my husband read it. He got it, and I deleted it instead of publishing it because seven planets are in retrograde and my butt chakra hurts, or some shit. I don’t know. What I doContinue reading “A New Voice In My Head Emerged This Morning.”
Imagining Universal Income and how it might change society/culture.
This longish exploration of my thinking starts sad/mad and ends hopeful. I think. 😁. Sparked by reading about Dahmer’s father…and ends with a brief thought about the Bible I’ll explore more later… I have felt passionately, since I was a young child, that parents are to blame when children murder. But now, at 42, IContinue reading “Imagining Universal Income and how it might change society/culture.”
My State of Mind Today
Halfway through 2023
Our little Stitch turned 6 yesterday. We celebrated by playing with him, watching Curious George as a family on the couch. He likes chocolate chip cookies, so I got a giant one as his cake. He licked all the icing off, and is saving the cookies for some unknown future time they may taste better,Continue reading “Halfway through 2023”
Adventures of an Earthborn Alien 