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green thoughts

February 21, 2017 @ 8:39 pm | Filed under: Gardening, Nature Study

I lost my voice for a week, and with it my mojo. I’m better now but still tired and feeling (here at the end of the day) low in spirits, probably because I just …

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Tags: butterfly gardening, Eleanor Perenyi, garden notes

day fourteen: all about weeds

January 13, 2017 @ 3:41 pm | Filed under: Books, Family, Fun Learning Stuff, These People Crack Me Up

1. A bonus post for today! But this one’s mostly for me: another little addition to our family collection of All About Weeds stories. Strangely, I can’t find the first All About Weeds …

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Tags: All About Weeds, booknotes, memory lane

Brave Writer Retreat Recap on Periscope

July 18, 2016 @ 4:14 pm | Filed under: Periscope, SDCC

Okay, first things first! Here’s the link to my Brave Writer Retreat Resources page that I mentioned in the Periscope I just finished. I’m still adding links and books to this …

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Tags: #bwretreat2016, Brave Writer, Brave Writer Retreat, Comixology, Gotham Adventures, Hobonichi, Julie Bogart, Periscope, Scrivener, Wild Simplicity Daybook

Sunscreen Saga

June 17, 2016 @ 6:05 pm | Filed under: Southern California, Sunscreen

In which I continue my quest for the perfect sunscreen.

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Tags: Biore, k-beauty, Paula's Choice, skin care, Sunscreen

assorted mid-June things

June 15, 2016 @ 7:48 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Books

Mid-June. I can’t quite wrap my mind around that, even though the specter of MID-JUNE has dominated my life for the past six weeks. Big scary deadline for the grantwriting work I do on …

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Our Week in Books: August 23-30

August 30, 2015 @ 1:48 pm | Filed under: Books, Fun Learning Stuff, On My Bookshelves, Picture Book Spotlight, Poetry, Thicklebit

Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller & Anne Wilsdorf. Read to: my boys. If you only pick up one new picture book for fall, let this be it. Here’s what I …

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Tags: Books, History, Homeschooling, homeschooling high school, hucklebooks, Picture Book Spotlight, picture books, Rillabooks

Books on the Rilla Shelf

August 9, 2015 @ 5:08 pm | Filed under: Books, Charlotte Mason, Homeschooling, Literature

These are the books I’ve collected in one place for Rilla to pull from this year. They may be read-alouds or read-alones, depending on what we’re in the mood for. I expect Huck will …

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Tags: booklists, books for nine-year-olds, Charlotte Mason, Homeschooling, living books, Rillabooks

Little happy lists

February 3, 2015 @ 8:59 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Bloggity, Snippets

Every year or two I am reminded that I have a Listography account where, for brief spells, I have experimented with logging various kinds of daily notes. In truth, I have these …

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Tags: listmaking