Mary Burrows has put my words on some tile plaques. I own one of each. They're really attractive. I'm glad to share the link to her Etsy site. My "cut" is to get an occasional tile. :-)
 | How you live in the moment...
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Karen James, a Christmas tree, a child surprising his mother...
http://sandradodd.com/chores/tales
My article "Rejecting a Pre-Packaged Life" is in the new issues of Pathways to Family Wellness
Here is a facsimile of the page as it is beautifully formatted there http://sandradodd.com/joyPaths (click to enlarge).
In the magazine, though, on its facing page is a beautiful image of paperdolls, each painted differently.
Here's where it already was on my site: http://sandradodd.com/joy
It was printed last year in the magazine of Kirkhope, Ettrick and Yarrow Parish, in Scotland. It is the most reprinted of my articles; it's fifteen years old.
"Left to his own devices," addition, up top to the "Phrases to hear and avoid" page
http://sandradodd.com/phrases
This was sitting as a draft for over two months and I'm not sure why, but I will use Robbie Prieto's nativity scene as impetus to send it out.
Colleen Prieto, Robbie's mom, thoughtful writer (a new collection)
http://sandradodd.com/colleenprieto/
Click the photo for larger view with comments.
Pushpa Ramachandran, Veda's mom, and a speech pathologist
http://sandradodd.com/pushpa
Follow-up on young adult Zach Sanders, and an essay he wrote about his journey from school-at-home to unschooling and on to being an outstanding university student (see the link on the writing page, righthand box, about his current position).
http://sandradodd.com/writing
http://sandradodd.com/words/zacheducation
Don't forget Just Add Light and Stir (or if you've never heard ot it, there y'go).
I've added the report below to my page with links to interviews:
http://sandradodd.com/interviews
Unschooling; How Learning through Living Leads to Happiness by Sarah Turner, for Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330) at the University of New Mexico in 2012. (Rose Sorooshian was also an informant. She's not named, but those familiar with her will recognize the parts that are about her.)
The direct URL to the anthropology paper is:
http://sandradodd.com/interviews/SarahTurnerMini-Thesis.pdf
(Only read this if you like academic reports. :-)
New, upper right, by Jenny Cyphers on frustration with a young child
http://sandradodd.com/bonding
Benefits of the Always Learning discussion list (some new writing)
http://sandradodd.com/alwayslearning/benefit
New on living with relatives, by Alex N.
http://sandradodd.com/relatives/livingwith
New by Robyn Coburn, up top on the deschooling page:
http://sandradodd.com/deschooling
Scooby-Doo, Frankenstein, and a Big Storm, by Colleen Prieto (new page)
http://sandradodd.com/connections/scoobydoo
Smurfs (bottom of "yes again"—new writing)
http://sandradodd.com/yesagain
On another site, a five-and-a-half minute video of me talkinga about unschooling:
http://www.doliferightinc.com/2012/10/25/doing-unschooling-right-video-25-2012-teleconference/
Questionnaire from 2009, that I had failed to link on my interviews page.
It has a good story about the first time Kirby and Marty heard a school bell.
http://homeschoolingisfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/05/always-learning-sandra-dodds-interview.html
and it's been added here:
http://sandradodd.com/interviews/
New title art:
http://sandradodd.com/videogames/minecraftlearning
New links near the bottom of the etymology page, to tons of stuff online about the history of English:
http://sandradodd.com/etymology
Thoughts on Humility: How can humility help a parent to deschool, and to appreciate children?
http://sandradodd.com/humility
Three pages translated by Catherine Goudouchaouri:
Voir et éviter la Négativité
Attitude et apprentissage naturel
Phrases à écouter et à éviter
Something new by Meredith Novak, at the bottom of the rebellion page:
http://sandradodd.com/rebellion
A Scottish Parliament resource on the Snakes and Ladders page was lost to us because their site was revamped, but I asked whether it was still available, and corresponded with one of their agents; those links and a better image are restored there now, lower right:
http://sandradodd.com/game/snakesandladders.html
There's a Gaelic version on their site as well.
A blog I keep with others (who rarely-to-never post) is
Homeschool News and Muse
There are links to things there in the recent past that aren't on my site, but they're well worth visiting and using!!
Two interviews by me on a blog in India:
Mommy Labs interviews of Sandra Dodd
Also in India, a video by Hema Bharadwaj [whose family has visited my house for the Monkeyplatter Festival (not FOR that, but it was created for their visit)] and whom I visited in 2012. She's talking about food, and brags up my food page with feeling:
Hema Bharadwaj on food choices
Hema's Food Chronicles Part 1
Pam Laricchia has big news on her Living Joyfully site—a newsletter and an introduction-to-unschooling series.
Living Joyfully Newsletter
On the blog Zenhabits, Leo Babauta wrote a really nice intro to unschooling last week:
Beginner's Guide to Unschooling
I rarely post to that other blog. It's saved for news items and "outside" articles. But this week has been busy, busy, busy in a wonderful way for unschoolers!
Deb Lewis's responses to someone who didn't want her kids listening to audio books so much
http://sandradodd.com/limits/listening
Little Tools for an Epic Life, an article from the California HomeSchooler, June 2012
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/littletools
Brie Jontry shares a collection, and temporary art made from it; Clare Johnson sent sweet comments.
http://sandradodd.com/briejontry/spirituality
That page leads to a spirituality page that was announced a year ago, but now it has a cool title (and some of you might have missed it before or forgoten about it since).
http://sandradodd.com/spirituality
The photo is by Holly Dodd, and if you click it you'll go to a Just Add Light and Stir post.
 Little Tools for an Epic Life |
http://sandradodd.com/pamsorooshian (upper right)
http://sandradodd.com/interviews/ (beginning of third section)
http://sandradodd.com/listen/ (upper left)
While you're at any of those links you'll find other things, so this is probably
enough site news for today.