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  all I can think about is …

  11.17.09 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  Homeschooling. When I was in high school, I read a book called Free at Last about the Sudbury Valley School. It was enchanting, and liberating, for me to know that there were places like that, and that my mother would support me in any sort of school arrangement I wanted to come up with for [...]

• Sally, school

  Dear Sally, Grandma thinks you’re autistic and she can’t stop talking about it

  07.21.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  {Back to HELP WANTED.} Sometimes I think about homeschooling. This thinking usually peaks around May and plummets in July. The timing is handy, making me look forward to both summer vacation and to school starting again. And even though I know it’s a cycle, I can’t avoid it because let’s face it: two universal truths [...]

• movies, parties, pta, school, valentine's day

  Party planner to the stars

  02.19.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I have a confession to make. I’m not a room-mother or a member of the PTA. At least, I usually sign up to be a part of PTA, but then I never follow through. I don’t volunteer. I don’t even make sure that Sally returns her Take-Home Library book every day. But I’m turning over [...]

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