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Learning Advice from a Learning Life 6 Mar 2013 | 09:46 pm
Learning is something very personal and very individual, so having found myself being asked for generalized learning advice, I find myself both eager to share but hesitant about what to share! So I'l...
What About College? 20 Jan 2013 | 01:53 am
I’ve been asked some variation on “are you going to college?” more times than I can count, and I don’t generally give a more elaborate answer than “no.” Occasionally, when pressed, I say that what I w...
The Frustration of Being That Unschooled Person 17 Dec 2012 | 07:37 am
You know, sometimes I'm overwhelmed simply by how much my priorities, ways of relating to others, and just myself in general, has changed this past year. One big shift in priorities being the decisio...
Making Transitions and Following Passions 27 Sep 2012 | 10:06 pm
The summer was just beginning when I last wrote here. The days were hot, and I was very happy for that heat. Summer is always a season with weather I very much enjoy. And now, the leaves are turning c...
Occupy Education Conference Talk 8 Jun 2012 | 09:07 am
I wrote a fairly short introductory talk on unschooling for an event that happened last weekend, the Occupy Education conference. The attendees were a mix of homeschooling and unschooling parents, str...
Teens, Control, and the Nature of Love 6 Jun 2012 | 03:51 am
Possibly the article I've received the most angry and condescending reactions to, of anything I've ever written, is my post on teenage rebellion (especially when it was posted, with heavy edits that I...
Critiquing the Radical Unschooling Critique: Real Negatives or Gross Generalizations? 26 May 2012 | 10:07 am
I came across a post a couple weeks back that I'm sure many readers will react quite strongly to. For once, it's not from some big mainstream media source dissing unschooling, but instead from a membe...
Stuff Worth Sharing with Unschoolers: a Gathering, a Group, and a Mailing List 30 Mar 2012 | 10:00 am
This post came about when I was realizing just how many things, events and online groups and other things, that I wanted to let my readers know about. And, well, once you have more than one or two, it...
Grown Unschooler Chloe Anne Spinnanger: "The best thing about unschooling is freedom!" 29 Mar 2012 | 08:23 am
Remember that grown unschooler questionnaire I posted quite a while back, the one that lead to the publishing of a lovely bunch of interviews with grown unschoolers? Well now I am thrilled to be resur...
Idzie is Speaking at the Rethinking Everything Conference 2012 2 Mar 2012 | 11:20 am
The Rethinking Everything Conference is one I've had my eye on for several years, and came very close to attending as a regular ol' attendee a couple of years ago when Daniel Quinn (author of Ishmael ...
