Thursday, January 24, 2013

"Door time," Big Book, Portuguese subtitles

On the Screen Time page, new (Joyce, in the on the right).
A quote:
     "Stop looking at the door. See the richness that exists beyond the door."
http://sandradodd.com/screentime

Three new images and links, righthand column, about 2/5 of the way down:
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/

Marta Pires has put subtitles on the "Doing Life Right" video of me, second image, here:
http://sandradodd.com/portuguese/

Monday, January 14, 2013

Joyce Fetteroll; avoiding divorce

Added to my page on Joyce Fetteroll, links to entries in her blog Radical Unschooling Philosophy Illustrated http://sandradodd.com/joycefetteroll

Long version of an interview that (in edited form) appeared in HSC's magazine recently:
http://sandradodd.com/hsc/interviews/joyce

Ideas about strengthening marriages and avoiding divorce, from mainstream sites:
http://sandradodd.com/divorcereasons

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Correction, Ouija-Big-Book, publications

Sylvia Woodman found a typo that made a difference, and I've fixed it. She wrote: "I was reading the Negativity page and I noticed a small typo. You have a quote from the book of Proverbs "better a dinner of herbs with love" it should be Proverbs 15:17 (not 7). It's a small thing and probably only geeks like me would check but I thought that you would like to know."
http://sandradodd.com/negativity

Nancy gave it to me correctly, but I "typoed" it when I added it to a second page. Here is the first (and correct from the beginnning) citation, on a page called "Advantages of Eating in Peace." It's in a good set of similar examples by me and Schuyler:
http://sandradodd.com/eating/peace

A story of what happened when someone opened The Big Book randomly (first under "Newest")
http://sandradodd.com/bigbook/

Last month I was published in two magazines and I'll be a regular columnist in one of them.

The HomeSchooler (formerly The California HomeSchooler, still published by the Home School Association of California (HSC), but gearing up to go national
and
Pathways to Family Wellness.

The first carried an interview of Joyce Fetteroll, which is not yet on my site. The second reprinted of my article "Rejecting a Pre-Packaged Life," and they laid it out beautifully. http://sandradodd.com/joyPaths (Click to enlarge it there or read it here.)

Thursday, January 3, 2013

My words on tile

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...

and

A joyful attitude...

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Helping out, Joy, guarding speech

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

click the image for more

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Colleen, Pushpa, Zach (updates on people)

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

Monday, December 10, 2012

An anthropology paper on unschooling

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. :-)

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Bonding, Benefits, Living with Relatives

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

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Deschooling, Scooby-Doo, Smurfs

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

Friday, October 26, 2012

Addiction, Unschooling video, School bell story



New on the "Thinking about Addiction" page, top and bottom both:
http://sandradodd.com/addiction

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/

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Minecraft art, etymology, humility

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

Friday, October 12, 2012

Three French pages, Rebellion, Scottish Snakes & Ladders

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.