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Earth Hour
2008-03-29 22:06:00 Turn out your lights tonight between 8pm and 9pm for Earth Hour . We plan to participate. See this link for details! Share This
the worst thing about parenting, and how to avoid it
2008-03-27 14:59:00 It’s not the poop, vomit, early rising, late nights, lack of sleep, lack of time, inability to get stuff done, the inability to go wherever whenever or the reduced time for sex. You get acclimated to most of that, and some things preclude other things - consistent lack of sleep makes sleep much more ... More About: Parenting , Thing , Avoid
When I was a boy
2008-03-26 00:26:00 The other day I was painting (the walls) and listening to Dar Williams’ song, When I Was A Boy when I thought of myself at about the age in the picture at left. So I got out some really old photo albums and scanned this picture. It is me at one of the ...
Enough, Billary
2008-03-25 20:41:00 I’m done with the Clintons. Bill may have been a better option than Bush 1.0, but I see their true colors in this campaign. I didn’t commit to supporting a candidate until recently, not because I had anything against Hillary but because the one who spoke with the most sense was Ron Paul. Now I ...
Father attempts to force a 12-year old boy to be circumcised
2008-03-17 18:10:00 Link to article I can’t even believe a father would do this. I am just so filled with rage. And tying this up with religion in the courts is such bullshit. This is a young boy’s own body. What gives the father the right to chop off some of it? And ... More About: Force , Father , Year
Quote of the day
2008-03-13 11:00:00 Arp tells me that he’s tired of using his regular razor and paying all this money to buy the refill blades. When they run out, he plans to immediately get a straight razor. Arp: I’m kicking it old school! Me: Well, what if you can’t figure out how to use it right?! Arp: I’m going to figure it ... More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
Quote of the day
2008-03-13 11:00:00 Arp tells me that he’s tired of using his regular razor and paying all this money to buy the refill blades. When they run out, he plans to immediately get a straight razor. Arp: I’m kicking it old school! Me: Well, what if you can’t figure out how to use it right?! Arp: I’m going to figure it ... More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
Finding a Pediatric Dentist - A Tale of Two Dentists
2008-03-12 21:59:00 A little less than a year ago, we took M for his first trip to the Dentist . I wasn’t sure how to pick a dentist at first. Should it be a pediatric dentist? A family dentist? Should I just pick one out of the phone book? We chose Dr. M because my sister ... More About: Tale , Pediatric
Finding a Pediatric Dentist - A Tale of Two Dentists
2008-03-12 21:59:00 A little less than a year ago, we took M for his first trip to the Dentist . I wasn’t sure how to pick a dentist at first. Should it be a pediatric dentist? A family dentist? Should I just pick one out of the phone book? We chose Dr. M because my sister ... More About: Tale , Pediatric
The other places we considered besides Costa Rica
2008-03-10 22:16:00 I’ve never been smitten with the idea of living in one place forever. It’s a nostalgic ideal that never resonated with me. By the time I was 10, I’d spent more time in India (60 months) than I did in school (12 months). Flying on airplanes was something I thought everybody did. I ... More About: Places , Costa Rica , Costa
The other places we considered besides Costa Rica
2008-03-10 22:16:00 I’ve never been smitten with the idea of living in one place forever. It’s a nostalgic ideal that never resonated with me. By the time I was 10, I’d spent more time in India (60 months) than I did in school (12 months). Flying on airplanes was something I thought everybody did. I ... More About: Places , Costa Rica , Costa
Where have I been?
2008-03-09 16:49:00 I haven’t blogged for quite awhile. I want to say that I’ve been really busy, but that’s not really the whole picture. Yes, I’ve been a bit more busy. Arp is working all the time on the web design business, at least on his days off from the main job, so I’ve ...
Where have I been?
2008-03-09 16:49:00 I haven’t blogged for quite awhile. I want to say that I’ve been really busy, but that’s not really the whole picture. Yes, I’ve been a bit more busy. Arp is working all the time on the web design business, at least on his days off from the main job, so I’ve ...
A little update?
2008-03-06 17:37:00 I’ve always wondered about people who blog daily. I certainly can’t do it - at least not now with my current workload. Maybe when we’re in Costa Rica, but I really hope I spend less time at the computer when we’re there. In the past month I built a social network site for unschoolers, which is ... More About: Update
Would you be dumb enough to pay for homeschooling advice?
2008-02-28 20:09:00 Someone thinks so. I’m guessing the target audience would be People Who Can’t Google. I shouldn’t be surprised as I’m sure someone has been dumb enough to pay the guy/girl. Fools and their money are easily parted, a fact that has been exploited by many, many people throughout history. Since the dynamic of the Internet has ... More About: Advice , Homeschooling , Dumb
Full lunar eclipse tonight
2008-02-20 19:31:00 Don’t forget that there’s a full lunar eclipse tonight, which should be visible all throughout the Americas. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate for you - it’s iffy for us with ‘Mostly cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing.’ Here are the relevant times with US time zones: Partial eclipse begins: 1:43 Universal Time ... More About: Tonight , Full , Eclipse , Lunar , Lunar Eclipse
Coming soon - a virtual community for unschoolers
2008-02-19 19:25:00 My pet project for 2008 has been building a virtual community website for unschoolers. I wanted something that allowed people to make their own groups and forums, and that let them decide whether things should be public or private. Someone might want to make a public group for unschoolers in their area while ... More About: Community , Virtual
5 ways to keep up with Costa Rican news
2008-02-18 22:47:00 We just got a subscription to the Tico Times, a popular English weekly newspaper in Costa Rica. Being aware of what’s going on in our prospective home is important. Our scouting trip was successful because we learned as much as we could, and had a good grasp of what to expect - the ... More About: News
Earth & Sky Kids - a nice science information site
2008-02-17 20:24:00 I just found Earth & Sky Kids while perusing various NPR podcasts. It’s a nice kid-oriented science site, and I can see it being pretty useful for answering the inevitable questions about how things work in nature. I’ve got my fingers crossed that we have a cloud-free night for the lunar eclipse this week ... More About: Science , Information , Site
I met my husband?
2008-02-15 02:28:00 …because my ex-boyfriend’s older brother had his lap vomited on (in France) by the friend of my husband’s best friend from college. Got that? The first time I met my husband, he was under the influence of something crazy and was talking about how wonderful it was that he just hugged a tree and really ... More About: Husband
Weaning
2008-02-14 11:00:00 M has weaned, and I sometimes can’t even believe it. It happened about a month ago, at age 5 years and 1 month. I wasn’t sure it was going to stick for a while there, so I haven’t written about it until now. We actually talked about it the other night, too. ...
Deer, Hit By Car
2008-02-13 16:10:00 I was driving with my husband and kids yesterday, on our way to our regular Unschooler’s Support Group, when a car coming in the opposite direction hit and killed a deer. I saw it all so vividly. Because it was an oncoming car, probably less than thirty feet from us, I saw it ... More About: Deer
Medical tourism in Costa Rica
2008-02-07 16:12:00 An article in today’s New York Times on medical tourism reminded me of one of the stories of medical care in Costa Rica I heard down there. The woman had gotten a $2000 estimate for a crown and told her dentist flippantly that she’d rather get it done in Costa Rica for that price. He ... More About: Medical , Medical Tourism , Tourism
Super Tuesday election results map
2008-02-06 01:38:00 Found this via Lifehacker - it will apparently update with results coming in as the evening goes on, starting in roughly half an hour. It should really interesting with the polls showing Hillary with leads in quite a few places (including NY & CA, with a buttload of delegates), while Obama (or as I like ... More About: Results , Super , Election , Tuesday , Super Tuesday
Caribbean creatures
2008-02-05 14:01:00 I get the feeling we’ll never document our whole Costa Rican trip here, but I’m pretty happy with the memories and feelings that are still so vivid in my mind. We do have a lot of pictures I’d like to share, so here are a selection of all the neat creatures we saw on ... More About: Caribbean , Creatures
Another Homeschooler for Hillary
2008-02-04 19:44:00 Yes, I plan on voting for Hillary tomorrow. Not all homeschoolers are republicans. I have several reasons for voting for Hillary Clinton. I think she is very experienced, quite smart, and I also happen to like her as a person. But as the campaign has moved along, I’ve actually found that the health care ...
Idiot
2008-01-30 18:30:00 Judy Apicella is an idiot. She directed a documentary on childhood vaccinations, entitled, “Shoot ‘em Up, The Truth About Vaccines”. I saw her speak at a meeting last night, run by the local Holistic Mom’s Network, that aimed to give information on vaccination to parents. After sitting through 2 tortuous hours ... More About: Idiot
Responsibilities of the World Traveler
2008-01-30 00:07:00 Arp’s post on 5 reasons to move to Costa Rica, and the comments that ensued, inspired me to post about the responsibilities that world travelers and/or expatriates share when visiting or living in foreign countries and cultures. As we, Americans, contemplate our move south, I’ve thought a lot about how the culture of Costa ... More About: World , The World , Responsibilities
A Brush with Petey
2008-01-24 17:10:00 Pete Seeger, that is. My lovely little sister took me to a benefit concert the other night to stop the relicensing of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. What a fantastic show it was! Performers included Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Gail Ann Dorsey, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, and the New York City Children’s Choir. ... More About: Brush
Howler monkey wake-up call
More articles from this author:2008-01-23 13:58:00 Since sunrise and sunset don’t vary in time like the US, we got used to going to bed around 8-9pm and waking up around 5-6am. One night I was woken by the sound of rustling branches, and being utterly paranoid, I thought perhaps there were some opportunistic stoners looking for some free clothes or ... More About: Monkey , Wake , Call , Wake up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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