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I’m reporting back from my first semester one-week residency, and I don’t think it will surprise anyone that I’m having a fabulous time in Writing School! I thought I’d share one of my favorite quick ten-minute writing prompts from the workshop portion of the week, shared by my instructor Nadia Owusu, that she picked up . . . → Read More: it’s no wonder 
“When overwhelmed thinking about covid, I distract myself. Like, I think about how to write pi in binary.” . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ favorite college professor  Leave a comment  abundance, gratitude, lifelong learner, lifelong learning, parenting  abundance, being a mama, consent, dinosaurs, educational priorities, fossils, graph paper, gratitude, infinity, lifelong learning, math, nature, outside, paleontology, paleontology camp, parenting, plants, reading, rubik's cube, science, trilobites, vi hart 
So this Q thing, with its extreme luminosity, gets its powerful energy from matter being sucked into a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. . . . → Read More: fourteen ~ quasar 
…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 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 
The invisible, inextricable linkages among members of an ecosystem sometimes reveal themselves when the system is under strain. . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ star ecology 
Maybe life is a little like a parabola, you have to get to the bottom of it at some point, but you can look forward to it going back up on the other side! . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ black holes and parabolas Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, being a mama, black holes, books, celebration, drums, executive function skills, family, gardening, gratitude, lifelong learning, lord of the rings, love, math, mother's day, music, nature, parabolas, parenting, physics, quokkas, reading, science, stay gold ponyboy 
Remembering Max the sea lion (1990 – 2020) today, with a stroll down blog memory lane. . . . → Read More: max 
As mama of a young man, I see it as one of my most important roles in his learning to make sure he is aware and competent around the concept of consent. By honoring Quinn’s integrity, boundaries, and self-direction in his learning, I am modeling consent. . . . → Read More: educational priorities ~ a mamafesto ~ 2020 remix One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, being a mama, connection, consent, dinosaurs, education, educational priorities, equity, gratitude, inclusion, integrity, interest-driven learning, learning styles, lifelong learning, long-term vision, love, math, music, nature, nourish, our living school, outside, parenting, reading, safety, science, self-directed learning, trust, yes environment 
After his first zoom lecture he told me about geometric morphometrics, which he explained very eloquently and I recorded on my audio recorder. I know he found that area of study quite intriguing – math plus fossils. . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ the morphometrics of distance learning One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, beach, dinosaurs, electronics, executive function skills, family, fossils, geometry, gratitude, hiking, hummingbirds, lifelong learning, love, math, music, nature, outside, paleontology, physics, programming, reading, robotics, science, tidepooling, vi hart 
My place in the conversation is primarily one of listening. Noticing when I feel defensive, taking that as a signal of where my garden has some weeds I need to pull. . . . → Read More: sitting with the uncomfortable truth of systemic racism |
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