…a never encountered dragon that could only be seen as a shadow or sometimes a bend in the light… . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ character building
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 2 comments  abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting  abundance, being a mama, black lives matter, books, coparenting, dragons, drift creek wilderness, dungeons and dragons, eggs, electronics, flowers, food, gardening, gratitude, hexaflexagon, hiking, lifelong learning, lord of the rings, love, math, nature, outside, parenting, peaceful protests, reading, science, storytelling 
Quinn spoke with a few people who have found some cool fossils in Oregon, including mammoth teeth and bones, parts from sharks and turtles. . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ my backstory is yes 
Time feels like it moves along like a Fibonacci sequence, spiraling ever more quickly, in bigger bites each year. It does feel like he was 1 for a while, then 2, then 3, then started jumping from 5 to 8 to 13, soon he’ll be 21 and before I know it he’ll be 34! . . . → Read More: lucky thirteen 
~8-23 to 9-23~ Our end of summer family trip to New York! The cousins absconded with Quinn and were barely heard from. It was neat how at their current ages (9, 11, 12) they do a lot more talking as they play, so there is less action and a lot of . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ holy coprolites, he’s in seventh grade! Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, books, cousins, dinosaurs, dungeons and dragons, family, fossils, grammy and grampy, gratitude, love, math, minecraft, music, nature, new york, outside, paleontology, parenting, reading, reciprocity 
we had an eventful weekend of pressing apple cider and playing with friends on saturday, and then attending a very exciting gender reveal party for quinn’s step-niece! he has been elected as future babysitter already for this new bundle of joy, coming to our family in march. once he handed in his historical . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ math goblins 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, beach, being a mama, books, dungeons and dragons, emotions, family, gratitude, haiku, history, homework, karate, life of fred, lifelong learning, logic, love, math, parenting, play, poetry, pokemon, reading, theatre 
the good farm people acted as though i was doing them a favor by not allowing those ten feet of the crop to go to waste, when i was really the one reaping all the tomato wealth a gal would ever want to put up for one season. don’t tell nachos, but i love pasta just as much, and a pot of organic sauce simmering on my stove is a happy thing in cool november weather. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ third annual nacho november 
10-23 to 12-23 quinn and i collaborated once again to create a fun halloween costume: bulbasaur the pokemon.
we took quinn’s fourth grader free state park pass on the road and hung out at the yaquina head lighthouse one afternoon to watch . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ becoming a dragon Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, handcrafting, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, beach, being a mama, books, celebration, drawing, dungeons and dragons, family, field trips, food, games, gratitude, hiking, karate, lifelong learning, love, nature, ocean, outside, parenting, pokemon, reading, science 
clearly, this is long overdue!
i’m writing this during the cold november rain, so it warms my heart a little to look back over summer sunshine and fun! and of course, learning.
i’m mostly relying on photographic evidence to remind me of . . . → Read More: ~two and a half months in the life of a lifelong learner~ dragonflies to dragons One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting a month of unschool, abundance, apples, around the farm, back yard, beach, being a mama, dungeons and dragons, family, food, gratitude, handcrafting, hiking, karate, lifelong learning, love, nature, new york, ocean, outside, parenting, reading, science, tidepooling, unschooling 
2-23 to 3-23
herring embryos under microscope; it’s bring your child to work day more often than once a year in my world.
the new hatchlings under my care; tiny eyeballs with tails!
in the body . . . → Read More: a month in the life of a lifelong learner ~ green eggs and herring eggs 
a long time ago (2015), in a galaxy far, far away, there was a yoda snowflake. yes, it all started with a yoda snowflake. that was what possessed me to buy another exact-o knife, even though somewhere in storage, there is already a perfectly serviceable exact-o knife in my possession. even for what could . . . → Read More: make like a geek ~ game sliders and creative dice rolling |
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