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My own little conferences!

Little and to the point!

Eight weeks from now, in Massachusetts:

http://allinmay2012.blogspot.com/

You can register directly if you're not needing a bunk. There are bunkbeds. :-)

Even if you're not able to go, it might be worth reading there because there will be others. Some are listed on the righthand column of the main Albuquerque symposium page:…

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Added by Sandra Dodd on March 22, 2012 at 8:15pm — 1 Comment

India for a month, in a month

In a month, I'm leaving for India. I'll stay with Hema Bharadwaj's family, in Pune. They visited Albuquerque a year ago and we had "The Monkey Platter Festival" for them because they couldn't make it to the U.S. for a conference. http://monkeyplatterfestival.blogspot.com/…

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Added by Sandra Dodd on September 22, 2010 at 6:24pm — 1 Comment

Chat, Friday September 3

Friday, September 3

10:00 in the morning at my house in New Mexico, but wildly varying

other times at other houses!

TOPIC:

Light gloss on the deep subject of good and bad, better and worse,

moral… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on September 2, 2010 at 10:31pm — No Comments

"Just Add Light and Stir"

Alison Potter, of Glastonbury, Somerset, wrote:

We came to the London Unschooling conference in…

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Added by Sandra Dodd on September 2, 2010 at 10:29pm — No Comments

Laughing at sad children

On CBS Sunday Morning, they're talking about letters from camp of kids begging parents to pick them up because they're not having fun. There's a book (might not be new) called P.S. I Hate It Here!: Kids' Letters from Camp But they're laughing at the kids about asking for help, by mail, which took effort to write, and days to receive. VERY sad. And the article is… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on August 15, 2010 at 10:01am — 9 Comments

My favorite Kermit the Frog song EVER

Added by Sandra Dodd on March 13, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Another video, from Monkey Platter Festival last fall

This is something Lee Stranahan recently put on YouTube and his Unschooling the Movie site.

These notes will only make sense in the context of the video: First they moved to California, but now…

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Added by Sandra Dodd on February 14, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling

That's a big name, and it's a big book. Pre-orders and onsite Good Vibrations Conference copies have been delivered/received/mailed.

Ordering information is here:
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/order

You could have a book within a week, and it will look like this, thanks to Holly Dodd's photobucket artistry:

Added by Sandra Dodd on September 29, 2009 at 10:00pm — 7 Comments

New little video, of me, about "Saying Yes"

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/968679247/unschooling-the-movie/posts

Brief, and I don't love seeing or hearing myself, but I like the background--the window was open and the curtain was moving a little. That's the best part (for me) and that plant behind me is a sea onion, or false sea onion, or something mysterious.

If you want a special version of the finished film, or… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on June 19, 2009 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

An opportunity to help

Please click on this and see if you're interested in helping it through the initial stage! Thanks.

Added by Sandra Dodd on June 14, 2009 at 10:00pm — 6 Comments

Me and others, 32 years ago

I think it's 32 years. This was sent to me yesterday by Beth Teel, who grew up in my hometown not far from me. She's younger, and her brothers were friends of my younger sister. Beth was one of my students, when she was in 7th grade English and again in 9th. Long ago.

The people in the photo have all changed names at least once since then (even the guys! ) but on the day of this photo we were:

Annette Garcia

Frank Garcia

Irene… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on June 5, 2009 at 8:32am — No Comments

April 23, a Wednesday, me in Albuquerque, happy.

Holly is in the next room and I can see her working happily on her MySpace stuff. We're eating "fancy oatmeal," she said--slow-cooked "real" oatmeal, with raisins and butter and brown sugar. She put half&half on hers and asked me about the relationship between half&half and cream, so I looked up the definitions of light cream, whipping cream and heavy whipping cream. Half & Half is about like light cream.

She was writing about Casa Bonita (or using it as the response on a… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on April 22, 2009 at 12:41pm — 1 Comment

a beautiful iris at MY house!

That grew in MY YARD. I'm so happy.

There are another couple of views of it here: http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2009/04/flowers-and-zombies.html

It's the first iris of the year, and it bloomed down low. Most of those are two or three feet up, and this one came out close to the ground.

That other purple bud to the right is vinca, not an… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on April 20, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Cold, sunny, routine day

I'm draining the hot tub to clean it, but it is COLD outside, so I'm planning a quick wipe and not maximum sanitation, as this all involves water.

Holly is asleep. Marty is asleep. I hear a clock ticking, a table fountain making noise and me typing. That's nice! I like it. I hear the furnace, softly, too. The house got cold.

Lately I've been working on my unschooling pages, cleaning up links to other places that aren't there anymore. And I'm moving some of the good parts… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on April 16, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Kids, me, two New Mexico things coming up

Yesterday I wrecked a car. That's not good.

I wrecked two cars, actually. Neither driver was hurt and there were no passengers. Photos and details are here:

http://sandradodd.blogspot.com/2009/04/so-i-wrecked-saturn.html

The post under that has several photos of Marty and his girlfriend Ashlee.

Under that are two recent photos of Holly, who has been wonderful in my life through several… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on April 8, 2009 at 8:45pm — No Comments

Monday, April 6, chat

Here:
http://sandradodd.com/room
password is goodidea

Time of chat, Monday, April 6: (and if this date or time has passed, there's another on Friday, earlier in the day)

Two hours, beginning:

Pacific: 2:00 pm Monday
Mountain: 3:00 pm
Central: 4:00 pm
Eastern: 5:00 pm
England: 10:00 pm Monday

Pune, India: 2:30 am Tuesday

Naranara, NSW: 7:00 am Tuesday

New Zealand: 9:00 am Tuesday

Added by Sandra Dodd on April 5, 2009 at 11:05pm — No Comments

Twenty-five years of marriage!

http://sandradodd.com/wedding

There will be other photos there later today. My Keith is sick in bed. So no dinner or movie (which is fine).

Added by Sandra Dodd on March 31, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

A random page exploration tool

I'm really excited to have finished putting all my decent pages into a magic-like portal at

http://sandradodd.com/random

It took me most of two days to finish, and I'm really thrilled with it.

I printed out all the unschooling pages from the editing area of my site, and worked at putting in anything that was useful without being too weird a place to enter (though some might be a bit rough or shocking for absolutely new… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on March 13, 2009 at 10:00pm — 13 Comments

I love photos.

Holly sent this to me. I didn't even know it had been taken. Kirby took it, and must have stood on a chair.

That's Holly with the red in her hair. Then Rosie and Roxana Sorooshian, me, Bo King (who did the tree art I use on my unschooling pages), Marty, and his girlfriend Ashlee. Pam and Kirby were in the other room.

This was the second week of January, this year, at my house.

I'm going to put it on my other blog,… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on February 25, 2009 at 12:39am — 3 Comments

Learn Nothing Day in London

Well good luck to me this year, but I'll think of something.

Learn Nothing Day is July 24, and I'll be in London. Y'know why?

Because the next day there's a conference and I really want to be there.

http://familyrun.ning.com/events/the-london-unschooling

I hope to get to visit Schuyler's house, and maybe get to France, and possibly accompany a friend of mine to see friends of hers in… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on February 21, 2009 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment