|
|||
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 
…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 
I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail Learn how to use my hands, not just my head I think myself into jail Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose ~Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ raining roses One comment abundance, gratitude, natural world, rainbow mondays abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, bubbles, butterflies, crab, dragonflies, flowers, gardening, gratitude, hiking, lifelong learning, light, love, nature, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, plants, poppies, rainbow mondays, roses, tidepooling 
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 
I am grateful for the spontaneous dates of early summer: breakfasts, coffees, and cocktails with popcorn outside in our Adirondack chairs by wedding trees. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ if the weather holds |
|
||
|
Copyright © 2022 mb ~ All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
|||
Recent Comments