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Little happy lists, redux

November 20, 2018 @ 8:05 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry

Howdy. I’m finally climbing out from under a crushingly busy autumn workload, and the first place I wanted to come—blinking like a mole emerging into the light—was here. I’ve missed this space, and I’ve …

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What I’m reading: Helene Hanff

September 16, 2017 @ 1:22 pm | Filed under: Books

Yes, again. As I head into the home stretch of radiation (only three treatments to go!!), I’m feeling pretty wiped. I’m like a phone that won’t hold a charge for long anymore. But I …

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Tags: 84 Charing Cross Road, booknotes, comfort reading, favorite books, Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury

Radiation in progress

August 30, 2017 @ 6:40 am | Filed under: Homeschooling, Tidal Homeschooling

The sign that greets me outside the treatment room is ominous, and in context the words are sobering. But as I lie there on the table—for only a few minutes; the procedure is beautifully …

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Tags: Tidal Homeschooling, tidal learning

KonMari for Homeschooling Moms

March 22, 2017 @ 3:20 pm | Filed under: Books, Homeschooling

1. This is going to be terrible, so start with something easy. Let’s say: board games. Collect all the boxes from the playroom shelf and put them in the middle of the floor. Go …

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Tags: decluttering, Homeschooling, konmari

day seventeen: tired

January 17, 2017 @ 8:42 pm | Filed under: Books, Family

I couldn’t get to sleep last night. This hardly ever happens. I usually nod off while reading, but I just kept turning pages and suddenly it was 1:30a.m. And then I lay there trying …

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day thirteen: barefoot boy

January 13, 2017 @ 9:17 am | Filed under: Family, Photos, Poetry

We interrupt this reading journal for a brief burst of mommyblogging. (But I promise you some Poetry Friday at the end.) The child whose blog name was decided before his real name was firmly …

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Tags: Huck, John Greenleaf Whittier, Poetry, Poetry Friday

day eight: commonplace book

January 8, 2017 @ 12:26 am | Filed under: Books

1. Yesterday I picked up one of my cleaning-spree finds: Nick Hornby’s Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt. Just the thing to reset my brain after Cybils reading, I thought. Hornby’s what-I’m-reading essay collections were hugely important to …

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Tags: booknotes, Helene Hanff, Nick Hornby

What I’m busy with this week

December 30, 2016 @ 8:59 am | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry

1. The Round 1 Cybils Award panels have made their selections, and finalists will be announced on Jan. 1st. My YA Fiction team read a total of 140 books (more if you count one …

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Tags: Art, art journals, Creativebug, Cybils, fresh starts, Lisa Congdon, little happy lists, planners, Wild Simplicity Daybook

Markmaking

December 16, 2016 @ 5:15 pm | Filed under: Art

In a comment on yesterday’s “inside my pen case” post, Hanni wrote: I have loved watching your journey of learning to sketch and draw. I want to start myself but I’m nervous. Have you always …

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Tags: Art, art journals, art lessons, art supplies, Creativebug, learning in public, sketchbook, sketchbook skool