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Chronicles, Chronology, Conversation, and Cultural Literacy

Posted: Thursday, May 17th, 2007 @ 10:15 pm in Movies, Nature, special needs | 2 Comments »

In spite of the philosophical sounding title this is not philosophical, just a collection of a few unschooling-type things that have been happening around here. But I almost want to save the title for a post where I might actually tie those things together : ). I’ll leave it there to remind me, for now. [...]

Recent Movies

Posted: Thursday, May 17th, 2007 @ 5:06 pm in Movies | Comments Off

Yesterday Clare got two versions of Jane Eyre on DVD. The Orson Welles one came from Amazon, and the 2006 version came from the library. So she watched both in sequence… interesting to compare and contrast. She was taking it easy yesterday because the next few days are going to be very busy with her [...]

Wednesday — errand day

Posted: Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 @ 2:29 pm in Journal, Movies | Comments Off

Nothing academic again, today. I had to go back to the endodontist, which is 60 miles away. I brought Clare and Kieron with me so they could watch the littlies. It turned out to be a very short procedure, which was good since it was 95 degrees down in town and our car air conditioner [...]