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living history

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This year Mr. T and I are delving into California history. With a few other families, we’re visiting a different historical site each month. We’ve already had a few wonderful experiences, which I’ve neglected to share here.  One of these days I’ll catch up. Meanwhile, this week we went on an overnight living history trip [...]

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distracted

August 18, 2011
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I’ve been a little distracted lately. By Mexican palms and Mayan ruins. By coconuts. And cenotes. The slightly loco part of all of this is that we flew to Mexico the same day that I gave my second homeschooling conference workshop. Which meant that the week before was a mash-up of preparing PowerPoint slides and buying sunscreen [...]

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ten days of delights

April 13, 2011

We’d talked about going to China as a family last summer, before H went off to college. Our friend, Mike–buddy since high school, best man at our wedding–and his wife Erin and their kids have been living in Shanghai for five years now, and we’ve played with the idea of visiting them ever since. So [...]

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a little adventure

April 4, 2011

A few members of the family are off on a little adventure. I’m updating photos to my flickr page each day, if you want to come along!

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atwitter: nyc edition

March 3, 2011

In which Lulu and I go visit H in New York City, and get worked up about all sorts of things. the washington square arch. Washington Square is such a haven in the middle of the city. Now I’ve seen the arch in every season but fall. H’s new dorm is right on the square, [...]

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this parenting gig isn’t for the weak of heart

August 31, 2010

Because watching my Lulu go off to school in my last post wasn’t enough… This weekend Chris and I brought H to NYU. I started writing a maudlin post with lots of wrenching details like the sight of H’s boxers intermingled with the family laundry for the last time, and the sorrow of shopping at [...]

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such grand plans

July 8, 2010

I had such grand plans. Plans to post from each new place we visited on our trip. (But we didn’t always have internet. And three of us with computers had to share we one Northern European adapter. Plus, there wasn’t always time for blog posts: we were on vacation.) I had plans to keep a [...]

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