Writer, Artist, Anthropologist
I find I would rather apprehend the knowable unknowable than attempt to put Logos into words.
Some things are better lived than said.
“Some things are more important than words,” Marigold said to Guy. “Some things only shrink into little shells when you try to describe them.”
Some people can plan a meal for every night of the week (EVERY WEEK), with bulk meals and freezer meals and all that. Me—no. I’m terrible at meal-planning. For a while, I felt that meal-planning …
Let’s talk about light straw clay. First off, I love it. Secondly, what is it? And why is it worthy of love? Both of those questions have an answer. Light straw clay is a bunch …
The house wakes early, even in the dark. Partly because kids are insane, and partly because I have a puppy, which is another story. In any case, by 6:30am the dog is pooping, Boots is …
In Spain, it’s not hot chocolate—it’s drinking chocolate. Encountering this sort of blew my mind, and so my quest began. The beverage I tasted in a Spanish streetside café was, as I understood it, a …
How do you bake a loaf of bread using the sourdough starter you made? Well let me tell you. I named this recipe my “daily bread,” as in “give us this day,” because it’s very …
After watching Bear Grylls do it, King Sturdy wanted to eat a caterpillar.
In my last two posts, I told you about the ideas that have influenced my kindergarten homeschool curriculum, as well as the subjects we’re studying, the activities that go with those, and the way I’ve …
My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: Our Routine Read this post »
In my last post, I shared the styles of homeschooling that have influenced the kindergarten curriculum I’ve created this year for King Sturdy. In this post, I’m going to tell you which subjects we’re focusing …
My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: What We Study Read this post »
There are a lot of different ways to homeschool: different curricula of course, also different philosophies. Here’s the mishmash of approaches that I like, with a broad-brush description of how I think about each. Unschooling …
Four homeschooling styles that shape our curriculum Read this post »