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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: Continue

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 advance raw interview footage,… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on June 19, 2009 at 11:00pm — 6 Comments

An opportunity to help

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

Added by Sandra Dodd on June 14, 2009 at 10:00pm — 2 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… 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 questionna… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on April 22, 2009 at 12:41pm — 2 Comments

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… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on April 20, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

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 of unschooling.info to… 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 recent life-and-death kinds of… 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 Continue

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).
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Added by Sandra Dodd on March 31, 2009 at 6:00pm — 3 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 unschoolers). There are ten or so… 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 i… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on February 25, 2009 at 12:39am — No 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 Northern Ireland. But those are all the… Continue

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

Kirby and Pam, in two imminent chats

See these people? That's Kirby Dodd and Pam Sorooshian, last month in Albuquerque. This week, SOON, Kirby will be the guest in a chat on the phenomenal game World of Warcraft. That's Thursday afternoon, January 5. The next day, Friday the 6th, Pam Sorooshian will be the guest. Both chats are 3:00 at my hou… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on February 5, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

Chat season


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I don't know if this will be temporary or ongoing, but I've been in the mood for chats. Many years back when the AOL homeschooling forum was the best place for unschooling discussion, I did a weekly chat… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on January 30, 2009 at 2:30pm — 6 Comments

Long ago live chats on unschooling were cool. Lately other things have been better for unschooling i…

Long ago live chats on unschooling were cool. Lately other things have been better for unschooling information, but some people still miss live chats. Today there was one announced in an immediate way and over 20 people came through over a three hour period. I'm going to do two more and maybe will decide to keep a regular schedule of chats. Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at my house (I hope c… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on January 28, 2009 at 8:33pm — No Comments

What my kids are doing these days

I was asked what my kids are doing. Kirby, 22, visited for 11 days recently. I talk to him two or three times a week. He's been working for Blizzard Entertainment for nearly a year and a half. He's up one level and is waiting to hear if he gets another promotion at some point. I'm sure he will if he stays there long. He enjoys the job. He makes good money and hardly has time to spend it. He works from about 2:00 to 10:00 p.m., so the dire warnings that letting him sleep late would keep him from… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on January 18, 2009 at 6:00pm — 10 Comments

Marty is 20

Yesterday my middle child turned 20. He's no longer a child, and no longer a teen. Today my oldest child (22) returned to Austin after an 11 day visit. He sent a text message each time he was about to board a plane, and I talked to him when he was on the ground in Austin. Sandra Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on January 15, 2009 at 10:37pm — 2 Comments

A convergence worth sharing

On New Year's Eve, I went to sleep without any of my kids home. Kirby was in Houston at a party. Marty was working until after midnight (2:00 a.m., I found out later) and then going to a party. Holly and Brett were working in the mall until after closing (he at Shoe Fitters and she at Zumiez), and then going to a party. The next morning, Marty wasn't home. He had stayed where he had partied, which is good. Holly and Brett were here, and got up and went back to work. Time passed. Because I was… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on January 2, 2009 at 12:30pm — 4 Comments

New Year's Resolution and a request for help

I haven't made a resolution for years, because I like to start the new year without setting myself up for failure. This year I'll risk it, because I want to ask something of other people, too. My resolution is to post here and at unschooling.info much more frequently. I spend most of my online energy on AlwaysLearning and my unschooling pages. But there ar… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on January 1, 2009 at 7:30am — 5 Comments

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