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Koor-ben-haun

June 29, 2010

Sort of how it sounds when the locals pronounce København. Known to us as Copenhagen. Luckily almost everyone in Copenhagen speaks English, because all of our combined understanding of Spanish, French and Italian helped us not a whit in Scandinavia. People spoke Swedish or Danish around us, and we couldn’t snatch out even a word here [...]

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southern sweden

June 25, 2010

We only had three days in Stockholm. I wish we’d had more time; it’s a gorgeous city, and there was so much more to see. Someday. My mother’s grandparents emigrated from Sweden to Minnesota. It was only after I did a little internet research on the family that I learned of the great emigration of [...]

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where in the world is wonder farm?

June 20, 2010

Can you guess? And if you haven’t figured it out yet: I’m a little behind on posting, due to lack of internet connection, and having to take turns with a single power cord adaptor (sharing with teenagers who need their international Facebook fixes!) But I’m hoping to post more photos in the next few days, [...]

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over the fence, out of the norm

April 22, 2010

If you’re here via the kind link from heather at Beauty That Moves, welcome! This little blog has never seen such a full house, but there’s plenty of room, so come on in! Since I left you dangling, or more precisely left myself dangling a few weeks back, on that chain-link fence, I figured that I’d [...]

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darned homeschooling

April 15, 2010

If we hadn’t homeschooled, he probably wouldn’t have developed his passion for filmmaking. He might have, but probably not to this extent. He wouldn’t have had the time to make all those films with his buddy when he was fourteen and fifteen; he wouldn’t have studied Hitchock’s films for months as a homeschooling project; he [...]

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retreat

February 2, 2010

This weekend, Lulu and I went on retreat with our mother-daughter group, to the hostel in Point Reyes. It was a glorious weekend. The eight pairs of mothers and daughters formed from our homeschooling support group, back when the girls were eleven and twelve. A few of the girls have left the larger group to [...]

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a zaballos brothers production

November 14, 2009

H and Mr. T worked on a film together last weekend. Only unlike the Coens, this pair has one brother who directs, and one who acts. H has been filming Mr. T as long as he’s been playing around with movie cameras. A brother almost ten years younger makes good fodder for a teenage filmmaker. [...]

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