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Over 100 members and 30 messages in just a few days. Though the <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/resources.htm">resources pages</a> at the website have taken a lot of work, it’s so thrilling to see it all come together.</p> <p>The inside-the-house part of the air conditoner is leaking, and I have no idea why. I’ve set up a large bowl underneath it, and if I can’t figure out the problem by tomorrow, I’ll have to notify the landlords - something I hate doing. Because I’m a very private person, renting is not an enjoyable experience for me. I hate letting landlords poke around my place…. Yes, I know it’s their place, too, but it just feels so invasive.</p> <p>On a happier note, it finally did rain. Several days, in fact. After almost a month without a drop, it was so refreshing! Plants stopped drooping, people seemed more content, and the sound of thunder was just splendid! Hopefully, we’ll get a bit more this week….</p> <p>Kenzie has been using the stair-stepper as a jungle gym. This machine is monsterous - big and white and made up of lots of sturdy metal bars and a rounded platic area just big enough to stand on. Yes, it’s ugly, but it’s fun! He’s been climbing all over it and jumping off, over and over, in as many ways as he can come up with. Because we bought it used for $20, and because this thing was built solidly and simply, I’m certainly not worried about it getting rickety. And Kenzie’s having a blast!</p> <div></div> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/27/indoor-jungle-gym/#respond" title="Comment on Indoor Jungle Gym">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-55"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/25/new-unschooling-resources-group/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to New Unschooling Resources Group">New Unschooling Resources Group</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 25th, 2005 at 2:33 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>, <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/the-magazine/" title="View all posts in The Magazine" rel="category tag">The Magazine</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />I have just created a Yahoo group for the discussion of cool unschooling resources. After searching and searching, I was unable to find a place that gathered together all the most interesting games, books, websites, toys, movies, manipulatives, and whatnots for unschoolers. Every resource group I found (and there were only a few) were for general homeschoolers - not unschoolers. And, most of those lists had been dead for quite a while, taken over by His Royal Spamminess.</p> <p>That said, I finally decided to create <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UnschoolingResources/">Unschooling Resources</a>. I’ve also devoted several pages at the <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/">Live Free Learn Free website</a> to listing the resources that members suggest. Here’s the description from the Unschooling Resources group:</p> <p>Found a great board game? Know when a cool show will be on? How about that awesome book your son just finished reading? Here’s a place to share what you’ve found and to discover even more ways to feed your children’s passions! Games (of all sorts), books, science equipment, websites, television shows, art supplies, toys, movies, math manipulatives, magazines, etc…. LOTS of etc!</p> <p>Has your family developed a cool game using spoons, strawberry baskets and beanbags? Tell us about it! Found a great touring exhibit? Fallen in love with a comic book? Found the perfect crayon? Discovered a new science fiction series your daughter just can’t get enough of? This is the place to post about it!</p> <p>Also, if your child suddenly develops a passion for dinosaurs, astronomy, 1950s musicals, calculus, interior decorating, King Tut, Kiwi birds, dragons, or the Union army, this is the place to ask for resource suggestions!</p> <p>What this group is <strong>NOT</strong> about: worksheets/workbooks, links to attendance sheets, gradebooks or planners, curriculum of any sort, discussions of home/unschooling theory, discussions of home/unschooling in general, advertising businesses, etc. There are many other lists devoted to these things.</p> <div /> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/25/new-unschooling-resources-group/#respond" title="Comment on New Unschooling Resources Group">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-54"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/22/the-joy-of-a-cheap-science-kit/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to The Joy of a Cheap Science Kit">The Joy of a Cheap Science Kit</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 22nd, 2005 at 12:36 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div></div> <p>A week or so ago, I bought a <a href="http://www.tpt.org/newtons/">Newton’s Apple</a> science kit (put out by <a href="http://www.wildgoosescience.com/">Wild Goose</a>) at a thrift store for a few dollars. I brought it out today, and Kenzie was intrigued. He was especially fond of mixing acetic acid (vinegar) and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) as many times as he could. Amazingly, we’d never done that experiment before.</p> <p>It was a cheap kit, but he enjoyed it thoroughly. The balloon car, the string and cup phone, the electromagnet, the fingerprint dusting - all of it. He was especially thrilled to own a test tube (plastic). Looks like I need to buy up a few real supplies from eBay. On a side note, I’ve been waiting to find a <a href="http://www.magiscope.com/">Magiscope</a> for cheap, but after four years, I don’t think it’s going to happen. Maybe I should just bite the bullet….</p> <p>Kenzie decided to pretend to be deaf, and then blind, today. We discussed sign language (we know a few random signs, and I can fingerspell), reading lips, and Braille (we have a Braille alphabet card that’s quite cool. You can order one for free <a href="http://www.afb.org/braillebug/Braille.asp">here</a> or <a href="http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/braille/cards">here</a>).</p> <p>Right now, he’s listening to <a href="http://www.alagaesia.com/">Eragon</a> on tape. He’s had the book for ages, but it must have seemed a bit daunting. Though he’s read most of the Harry Potter series (he’s on book 5), Eragon has been sitting on the shelf. But, when we found the book on tape at the library this morning, he grabbed it as quickly as he grabbed up several of Jeff Smith’s <a href="http://www.boneville.com/">Bone</a> books. He’s been in the bedroom with the door closed, holding his stuffed dragon, and listening for hours. An aside: The author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini, was a 15-year-old homeschooler when he began writing the book. You can listen to an interview with him (in which he discusses the book and his homeschooling) <a href="http://www.homeschool.com/articles/Eragon/default.asp">here</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/eragon.jpe"><img width="100" height="161" border="0" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/eragon.jpe" alt="Eragon" /></a></p> </p> <div></div> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/22/the-joy-of-a-cheap-science-kit/#respond" title="Comment on The Joy of a Cheap Science Kit">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-53"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/17/halloween-in-july/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Halloween in July">Halloween in July</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 17th, 2005 at 12:58 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />Garage saling today, Kenzie bought a few rubber bats, a pack of plastic spiders, some “spider web” stringy stuff, and a scary skeleton puppet. When he got it all home, he set it up, dressed himself in a witch costume, and sang Halloweeny songs for hours. And in bed tonight, he read several spooky books about ghosts and UFOs and haunted houses. He’s counting down the days until Halloween, choosing his costume, and planning a party (that will end early so everyone can go Trick or Treating, of course).</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/professor_and_the_gypsy.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Professor_and_the_gypsy_1" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/professor_and_the_gypsy_1.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Kenzie’s first Trick or Treating</p> <div /> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/17/halloween-in-july/#respond" title="Comment on Halloween in July">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-52"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/15/no-rain-today/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to No rain today">No rain today</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 15th, 2005 at 1:18 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/the-magazine/" title="View all posts in The Magazine" rel="category tag">The Magazine</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />Nope. None. After being surrounded for several hours by wonderful storms, we stayed totally dry. Oh, well.</p> <p>I sent out the <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/current.htm">magazines</a> today. It took longer than I’d anticipated - over 20 hours’ worth of work - folding, stapling, organizing, labeling, stamping…. My palms are bruised from pressing down on the saddle stapler again and again. By the end, I was putting both hands on the stapler and pushing down on top of them with my forehead; my hands hurt to much to press down that hard on their own. But, I finally finished. It’s such a relief to have them out the door and on their way. It’s a wonderful issue, and I’m proud of it, but assembling it always takes so much out of me. I’ve decided that I’ll have the printers do the next issue in its entirety (instead of only the covers) and assemble it. Yes, it will cost more, but not as much as I’d feared. It’s just that it’s become a little overwhelming for me to do on my own (not that that’s a bad thing, necessarily). The house always falls apart, cleaning-wise, only adding to the stress-level, and Kenzie gets shortchanged.</p> <p>He was happy to have his mother back today. We played indoor tennis (with paddles and a Nerf-like (but harder) ball) for quite a while this evening. I think he’s been craving our time alone together. Over the past few days, I haven’t been as available as usual. And when I was, I was kinda stressed, truthfully. He’s done his best, finding things to play on his own, reading, marking the movies to watch, and trying to keep himself entertained because he knows I’m swamped, but, I’m really, really looking forward to having the printers do the bulk of it next time.</p> <p>I treated myself to a nice dinner tonight in celebration of finishing Live Free Learn Free’s first year of publication. Farmer’s cheese and whole wheat crackers, rainier cherries, white wine, and thin Swedish ginger snaps. Mmmm….</p> <div /> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/15/no-rain-today/#respond" title="Comment on No rain today">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-51"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/14/rain-update/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Rain Update">Rain Update</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 14th, 2005 at 7:35 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/musings/" title="View all posts in Musings" rel="category tag">Musings</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />This is strange, but not overly surprising, somehow. For the past few hours, there have been storms - real storms - on every side of us - North, South, East and West. But here? Nothing. Not a drop. And, I don’t mean these storms are miles and miles away. The dry area is a circle between five and ten miles in diameter. It’s been this way all afternoon. Gray skies, crushing humidity, lightning all around us, and no rain. Sigh…. I have to go work on my dance, again.</p> <div /> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/14/rain-update/#respond" title="Comment on Rain Update">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-50"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/14/rain/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Rain">Rain</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 14th, 2005 at 5:01 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/musings/" title="View all posts in Musings" rel="category tag">Musings</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />We’ve finally had a few short showers this week. It seems we’ve gone months without rain. Monday, Kenzie played in an evening shower. He put on his bathing suit and danced around the yard, calling to me every few minutes where I stood on the porch.</p> <p>“Look at this brook!”<br /> “I see worms!”<br /> “I can control water! Watch! Abracadabra!”</p> <p>The neighbors, all watching from their porches and garages, gave us strange looks. That’s not unusual, though. We’ve garnered plenty of strange looks since moving here last year.</p> <p>Today, we had a three-minute shower. Well, sprinkle, really. Sigh…. My whole body feels dry… thirsty…. I could never survive in a desert.</p> <p>My dream home? Well, someone I once knew said something about living on an Oregon Beach: “Your front door opens to an ocean, and your back door to a forest.” Yes, that’s what I want. A rocky, cool beach littered with sea glass and driftwood, and a forest with towering, green trees.</p> <p>Sadly, the only beach I’ve ever visited was the Gulf of Mexico (and only once), and the only forests I’ve seen have been the pine trees of East Texas. Not to discount East Texas pines. I grew up in far North Texas, and the only trees were mesquites - overgrown Mexican bushes with thorns. Because that’s all we had, we used to “climb” them, and I still have those small, round scars to prove it. Those pine trees were amazing to me. It was hard to believe anything could grow so tall….</p> <p>In any case, I’m doing my rain dance tonight. First, I’ll have to come up with one, of course. But, I’m aching for rain. Real rain. Huge drops splashing against windows. Lightning. Thunder. Darkness in the middle of the day. That’s the kind of rain I dream of….</p> <div /> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/14/rain/#respond" title="Comment on Rain">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-49"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/13/losing-and-finding/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Losing and Finding">Losing and Finding</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 13th, 2005 at 4:45 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/musings/" title="View all posts in Musings" rel="category tag">Musings</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />Last year, I lost a friend. Things just broke between us. I’m not someone who loses friends, really, and I’ve never quite made my peace with it. Probably, I never will. A big part of our six-or-so-year friendship was based on music, and when I hear something that this person would love, I feel guilty as all hell. Today, I discovered an amazing and utterly beautiful Graham Nash song from his first solo album. How I lived my life up to this point without this song astounds me. Music has a way of affecting me like few things can. A set of lyrics can bring tears again and again and again. Good harmonies cause a physical feeling like being on a roller coaster. Singing along often creates a ripple of shudders down my body, complete with goosebumps. Ask my mother, and she’d tell you this means I need to focus more on my guitar playing and songwriting. I should, I know. But, when I hear songs like this one - this simple, short song - I can’t imagine being able to write anything even remotely comparable. Ever. It keeps me stagnant. Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, Jonatha Brooke - I could never write like these people (and so, so many others). The weight of their incredible talent is crushing when I’m sitting with a guitar in my lap and a pad of paper on the table.</p> <p>Anyway, finding this song is something I would have shared with this person in an emphatic, rambling email. Since I couldn’t write that, I’m writing this.</p> <div /> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/13/losing-and-finding/#respond" title="Comment on Losing and Finding">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-48"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/09/issue-six/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Issue six…">Issue six…</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 9th, 2005 at 7:56 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>, <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/the-magazine/" title="View all posts in The Magazine" rel="category tag">The Magazine</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />covers will come back from the printers’ on Monday. Then, it’s over twelve hours of folding, stapling, stamping, labeling, and mailing. Whew! I’m exhausted just thinking about it! It should be a wonderful issue, though. I’ve been meaning to publish a batch of articles that deal with the different forms of support. I didn’t dream, though, that I would be able to find articles that encompassed so many different types of support: family, friends, local groups, e-groups, and conferences!</p> <p>Publishing an <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/">unschooling magazine</a> has been heartening in so many ways. I’m never at a loss for inspiration on my own unschooling journey, and I come into contact with so many wonderful people. It truly is a dream job, and I feel amazingly blessed.</p> <p>This afternoon, Terry pulled up the dead tree in our backyard. Obviously, it died long before we moved in last year, but recently, it had begun to crack and split. He started to saw off the branches, then realized he could probably push it over. Yup. It didn’t take much. Now, we’re just left with a toppled tree to cut up and haul away (or keep for firewood - will it ever be chilly enough for fire-building?).</p> <p>Kenzie has a cold, complete with fever. He’s generally a very healthy child, partly due, I’m sure, to his not attending school. He’s not used to feeling icky and lethargic, so he’s been camped out in front of the television most of the day - Mystery Hunters, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Truth or Scare, Pokemon, etc. Children’s television is amazing, now. No longer do kids (at least kids with cable or satellite) have to wait for Saturday morning cartoons. Now, even at 3 AM, there are cartoons on multiple channels! I’m not impressed with the quality of many of them, but when I was little, I loved The Smurfs, so I really can’t complain. I still don’t understand the rules for replacing words with “smurf” or “smurfy.” Were there rules? The grammarian in me wants to know!</p> <div /> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/09/issue-six/#respond" title="Comment on Issue six...">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-47"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/09/george/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to George">George</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 9th, 2005 at 1:39 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/musings/" title="View all posts in Musings" rel="category tag">Musings</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div />For the past two nights, a possum has visited our house to feast on the cat food I set out for the two strays who have decided to live on our porch. Both nights when I walked out, all three were happily sitting next to each other. And, each night, the possum looked at me (maybe two feet away) and continued eating, glancing up at me every so often. Then, he slowly turned and ambled away. Strange behavior for a possum, and strange for the cats, as well. They must be used to him…. I wonder how long he’s been around? He’s certainly not afraid of either them or me - something I’ve never witnessed before.</p> <p>My first encounter with a possum? Once, when I was a child, my mother, brother and I returned from a shopping trip, and my mother was unable to find her key. As she searched her purse, her eyes met those of a rather large, gray animal. She began pounding furiously on the door, screaming, “Let me in! There’s a rat! A giant rat!” When my father finally opened the door, he laughed. Yes, it was only a possum. None of the three of us had ever seen one.</p> <p>Since then, she’s taken to feeding them (along with the many stray cats) every night. Even after years of feeding, though, they would never stick around if she were anywhere near them. This guy is different. Hopefully, he’s smart enough to stay away from most other animals and people. I mean, most humans aren’t too happy to see a possum on their porch, and most stray male cats aren’t happy to share their food.</p> <p>I think I’ll name him George. 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