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Introducing Reading Trails

January 17, 2009 @ 5:49 pm | Filed under: Books

…a nifty new website that allows you to create trails of theme- or topic-related books. That’s right, homeschoolers, it’s what we’ve been doing all along. We call them “rabbit trails,” these folks call them

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On the Trail with the King of Ireland’s Son

September 11, 2006 @ 2:25 pm | Filed under: Books

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Hasped and hooped and hirpling, but hopeful

March 4, 2022 @ 4:39 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Homeschooling

Okay. Whew. It’s March. I’m a few days away from finishing my last Brave Writer Dart of the year (this one on Nim’s Island, that utter delight of a book), and I’ve scaled back …

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Tags: Beowulf, Elizabeth Goudge, low tide, moomins, Seamus Heaney

Friday: big ideas to ponder and discuss

April 9, 2021 @ 8:12 am | Filed under: Books, Rule of Six

Perhaps the easiest piece of my personal Rule to fulfill. I live in a house full of talkers, analyzers, discussers, ponderers. Online and and in the world, I gravitate toward friends of similar …

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Tags: big ideas to ponder and discuss, Dinaw Mengestu., Jane Hirshfield, ross gay, rule of seven, rule of six, Rumer Godden

In fine whack

January 27, 2021 @ 9:20 am | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Books

My morning routine has been a bit out of whack lately, and I’m trying to get it back in what an etymological site tells me is the opposite: in fine …

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Tags: creative practice, Madeleine L'Engle, morning routine

The good lists

July 20, 2020 @ 1:41 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry

My fountain pens all got leaky, and I can’t embroider with ink-stained fingers—too risky. So sometime during the past few months I shelved my beloved Hobonichi planner (acquired in the Before Times) and shifted …

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Tags: little happy lists

And there went June

June 26, 2020 @ 2:50 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Books, Links

It’s been nearly a month since my last post here, and over a month since I shared any of my own photos on Instagram. This time, the silence was intentional, an awareness that I …

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Tags: andy goldsworthy, austin kleon, creative practice, holly wren spaulding, John Stilgoe, kimiko hahn, mia birdsong, Patreon, poetry before screens, ron padgett, ross gay, tonia peckover, zuihitsu

Suddenly homeschooling? Don’t try to make it like school.

March 17, 2020 @ 6:58 pm | Filed under: Books, Family Adventures, Fun Learning Stuff

I just wrote an epic Twitter thread with advice for parents who have suddenly found themselves thrust into homeschooling situations due to COVID-19. I promised to compile it here for easy reference, so here …

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Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, Homeschooling, social distancing, suddenly homeschooling, Tidal Homeschooling, tidal learning

Still funny

May 24, 2019 @ 7:55 am | Filed under: Family, These People Crack Me Up

Yesterday’s post sent me on a happy rabbit trail of reading other posts in my archives bearing the same “These People Crack Me Up” tag. My kids crack me up. Some of the gems I …