April Rain
April 26, 2017
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Category: seasons
The Winding Path of Self-Directed Learning
February 9, 2017
“If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him the milk, he’ll probably ask you for a straw. When he’s finished, he’ll ask you for a napkin.” -Laura Joffe Numeroff
Snowflake Bentley And The Case For Self-Directed Learning
December 8, 2016
“I never went to school until I was fourteen years old. My mother taught me at home. She had been a school-teacher before she married my father, and she instilled in me her love of knowledge and of the finer things of life. She had books, including a set of encyclopedia. I read them all.” … More Snowflake Bentley And The Case For Self-Directed Learning
My Favorite Time of Year
October 17, 2016
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~George Eliot
Not Back to School
September 6, 2016
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scheduled Child vs The Beauty of Boredom
August 4, 2016
“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all it’s flavor.” ~William Cowper
A Few Small {Fall} Moments
September 26, 2015
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” –Emily Bronte
A Few Small {Slow Down} Moments
June 5, 2015
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” —John Lubbock
Fairy Houses
April 24, 2015
“Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?” –P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins
How Does Your Garden Grow?
April 20, 2015
“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” –Sitting Bull
Adventures in Teaching My Own 