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I grabbed it up and lugged it through the store with me, happy as a clam. One of these days, we’ll find a good Oxford English unabridged dictionary set, but until then, this will fit the bill nicely. It’s certainly more enjoyable than our smaller dictionaries (<em>The Random House College Dictionary</em> and <em>Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary</em>).</p> <p>Anyway, the book now has a new home on top of one of the bedroom dressers. Kenzie and I have been looking up word meanings and origins all day, calling each other in to read the interesting ones. Now, if I could just stumble upon a reference stand…. Something like this would do nicely….</p> <p><img id="image262" alt="Reference_Stand.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Reference_Stand.jpg" /> </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/26/the-gods-of-unschooling-were-smiling/#respond" title="Comment on The Gods of Unschooling Were Smiling....">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-260"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/20/emailing-live-free-learn-free/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Emailing Live Free Learn Free">Emailing Live Free Learn Free</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> June 20th, 2007 at 3:58 pm (<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"> <p>Apparently, our email addresses have been crawled and disseminated. We have been receiving literally thousands of pieces of junk mail every day for the last several months. While I’ve been trying my best to weed out the real mail from the scams, I know I’m missing messages here and there.</p> <p>Sigh….</p> <p>Anyway, if you’re having trouble reaching us, try using my old standby account. folkypoet (-at-) aol (-dot-) com. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/20/emailing-live-free-learn-free/#respond" title="Comment on Emailing Live Free Learn Free">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-259"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/20/barter-bee/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Barter Bee">Barter Bee</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> June 20th, 2007 at 2:54 pm (<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"> <p align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.barterbee.com" /></p> <div style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.barterbee.com"><img id="image258" alt="Barter Bee.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Barter%20Bee.thumbnail.jpg" /></a></div> <p>Though our musical tastes are a little too alternative, and we don’t have a large enough stockpile of dvds and games to try this out for ourselves, I’ve heard wonderful things about Barter Bee. You can trade in dvds, video games and cds for points and then spend those points on new-to-you media. Shipping is free. Have fun! </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/20/barter-bee/#respond" title="Comment on Barter Bee">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-256"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/18/the-woman-warrior/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to The Woman Warrior">The Woman Warrior</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> June 18th, 2007 at 10:55 pm (<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 > Browsing NPR today, I found a wonderful piece by Diana Abu-Jaber about Maxine Hong Kingston’s achingly beautiful <i>The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts</i>. Click on the NPR link below to read the full article. </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #4c4c4c; background: #cccccc; border: solid 4px #336600; width: 100%; clear: left;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #cccccc;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="clipmarks' clip-to-blog"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/0e098f1a-6b73-4906-88d8-13d70e327443/F21BC3E8-E796-4596-8F52-5E06201B8A0C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11163242&ft=1&f=1" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11163242&ft=1&f=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><br /> <div align="center"><img src="http://content3.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/C318EA49-6359-4FC5-BF0C-D845E0D6B7D5" alt="Book Cover: "The Woman Warrior"" /></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>I flipped through it, curious. What <EM>was</EM> this? A novel, a collection, a memoir? I’d never encountered a book that made up so many of its own rules before. <EM>The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts</EM> begins with the familiar words: “‘You must not tell anyone,’ my mother said, ‘what I am about to tell you …’” It goes on to tell the story of a pregnant, adulterous woman who is terrorized by her village, and it ends with her drowning in a well. The story traces the links of what it’s like for those of us who live between identities. </P></td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>Raised in an Arab-American family, I knew what it meant to feel both proud of my heritage and yet ashamed by the scent of garlic in my lunch. I was a stranger everywhere, neither fully Arab nor fully American. Hong Kingston understood this wild strangeness, using a kind of oral narrative — Chinese-American “talk-stories” — to address the brutality of family, the terror of women imprisoned by the bonds of tradition. </P></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/18/the-woman-warrior/#respond" title="Comment on The Woman Warrior">Comments</a> </p> </div> <p> </p> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li id="meta"> <h2>Meta</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-login.php">Login</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" title="Syndicate this site using RSS">Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/comments/feed/" title="The latest comments to all posts in RSS">Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="/blog/index.php"> <p> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Search" /> </p> </form> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="Powered by Wordpress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">Powered by Wordpress</a> · Design by <a href="http://beccary.com" title="Theme designed by Beccary">Beccary</a> and <a href="http://weblogs.us" title="Theme sponsored by Weblogs.us">Weblogs.us</a> · <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional"><abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a> · <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" title="This page validates as CSS"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr></a> </p> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=605365; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=4; var sc_security="d224bf47"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=605365&java=0&security=d224bf47&invisible=1" alt="free stats" border="0"></a> </noscript>  </body> </html>