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  • A Successful Meal!

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    We had dinner guests from Switzerland tonight and I was driving myself crazy trying to figure out what to serve. Because I don't have the menu planning gene, I was really agonizing over it. I looked through cookbooks, websites, magazines--but nothing seemed right. So then (and I should have thought' [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:16pm EST
    by Colleen

  • Avatar & Happy Day

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    Jerry and Warren went to the cast and crew screening for James Cameron's Avatar last night. Jerry loved it. In fact, love might not even be a strong enough word. He was exultant when the credits started to roll. He said he would watch it every day for the rest [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:34am EST
    by Colleen

  • Why?! Why?! Why?!

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    So, Jerry has three close friends, right? He has Jackson, Shea, and Yulia.

    Jackson and Jerry met at age 2 and spent the next 11 years glued together at the hip. Sure they went to different schools, but they spent every possible moment--that they weren't in school or doing' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 10:21am EST
    by Colleen

  • Proud Mama

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    It's been a while. I know. So, here I am – playing catch up once again. I have to warn you, there will be bragging involved. I'm feeling so proud of Jerry today. Not for anything in particular. I'm just proud because he is who he is. And because he' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:37pm EST
    by Colleen

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

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    I hope everyone has a fabulous day and that you all find many, many things (people, places, moments, etc) to be thankful for. And on that very subject, I received an e-mail today from a friend (one of my favorite people on the planet, actually) that I don't see or' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 3:19pm EST
    by Colleen

  • For Barbara

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    This is just a quick update for my Aunt Barbara because I know she hates it when I take a blogging break. I can't get over how busy we are all of a sudden! This week alone we've had dog walking every day, knitting circle, teen laser tag, a field [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:30am EST
    by Colleen

  • Big News!

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    Our local library branch opened on Monday! I was there for the ribbon cutting ceremony along with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a couple councilmen, the fire chief, some random city officials, and about 300 neighbors. It was awesome! Our library is so cool! The first cool thing is the fact that [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:09am EST
    by Colleen

  • Amazing Leopard Seal Story & Photos

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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:26pm EST
    by Colleen

  • No Mo' NaNoWriMo

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    Well, that didn't last long. Writing 2000 words a day just isn't my thing. It's no fun if you can't go back and make the writing good. Part of what I like about writing is going back over it and reading it--but if it's all hurried drivel and I can't [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:42am EST
    by Colleen

  • Sita Sings the Blues

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    So, I'm 5669 words into my novel, but I decided rather than completely let the blog go this month, I'll post links to websites or videos that I really like. The first one is an animated movie called Sita Sings the Blues. You can watch the entire thing online. [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:03am EST
    by Colleen

  • It's NaNoWriMo!

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    I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year! So, you probably won't hear much from me for the next month--except for the occasional brief update. So far I have nearly 4000 words written. I'm cheating a bit because I actually started this novel a couple years ago.' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:14pm EST
    by Colleen

  • Happy Birthday To Me

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    I know I said I was taking a break but today is my birthday and I need to tell you what I got. Brace yourselves, it's ugly. Psoriasis. That's right. It's just a tiny little thing on my scalp, but it's a reminder that I am not immune to aging [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:27am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Blogging Break

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    Just letting you know I'm taking a short break. I'll be back in a week or two! [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:58am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Weekend Fun

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    We had such a great weekend. Warren managed to get off work on Saturday so we could go to the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Ventura. The weather was perfect and as soon as we arrived we ran into some friends from our Santa Monica unschooler park day. It was a [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 1:19pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Enough

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    You know what's funny? Whenever I start to worry about Jerry (and I've probably said this before because it keeps happening) and how he spends his time, the very next day he does something completely different. I don't know why it always surprises me. And you know what else? I' [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:03am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Am I Doing Enough?

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    That's what I was asking myself yesterday. As an unschooling parent I spend a lot of time looking for things that will interest Jerry. I scan the internet. I use Google Alerts to notify me when something he's interested in shows up online. I'm always sending him links to' [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:52am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Wild Things

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    I love, love, loved Where the Wild Things Are. Sometimes it was a little slow and you were just waiting for the next thing to happen, but it was beautiful and touching and heartbreaking and uplifting all at once. And the Wild Things were amazing, as [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 10:57am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Homeschooling Video

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    This is long, but well worth the time. Thanks JJ! [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:00am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Ramblings

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    I don't have much to say, but I wanted to check in anyway. It looks like the New York people we were hoping to swap with aren't available now. I'm not giving up hope, though! I've already sent our some e-mails and am keeping my fingers crossed we can find [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 11:31am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Books & Birthdays

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    I am very excited about this book! Scott Westerfeld is the author of the Uglies series, which I absolutely loved. (Even though they're categorized are young adult books, I highly recommend them to anyone of any age.) I'm very irritated about one thing, though. I've' [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:54am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Two Things

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    First of all, never say never. I know this rule. I spout it all the time because I swore I'd never raise a child in Los Angeles and here I am doing it and loving every second, so you'd think I'd have learned my lesson. Right? Still, there was one' [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 11:02am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Hotel Room Cooking Gone Awesome

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    And I thought my iron-grilled, hotel room quesadilla was clever...

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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Parties, Guests & Internships

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    We've been orbiting at warp speed around here these days. Our visitors from New Zealand arrived yesterday. It turns out the woman's 4x (or maybe 5 or 6x) great grandfather operated the printing press at a museum we visited in Russell New Zealand and her grandmother was the nanny for [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 4:09pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Bill Maher

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    New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle

    I've been feeling the same way lately. [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:40pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • New Blog! Elevator to the Coolness

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    I'm starting a new blog! It's not replacing this blog, though. It's an addition. I decided I need a place to put all the cool things I find on the internet (and in life) in one place, where they're easy to get at and easy to share. I only have [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Silk Screening Awesomeness

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    Our silk screening class was awesome! The guy who taught us was so nice and really treated Jerry like an equal--which was so refreshing. We were there for a little over three hours and he showed us every step: scanning our drawings, printing the negative, creating the screen, applying [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 11:32am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Overwhelmed

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    I was talking to Warren on Saturday morning about how I've been feeling really overwhelmed lately. I just have so much hanging over my head at the moment. My grandma's estate stuff, trying to find things for Jerry to do, wondering how we'll manage to keep paying the mortgage if' [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 12:09pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Unschooling=Kindness

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    Pam Sorooshian wrote something on the Good Vibrations Yahoo! Group that I wanted to share with you. I hope she doesn't mind.
    I wanted to comment on something I said in both my talks, I think. I said that unschooling could, maybe, be boiled down to just "Be Nice!" But' [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 11:09am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Warning: Whining Ahead

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    Sorry. It's just that I'm feeling all "bad mom" today. I think it's because of the conference. I enjoyed it. I really did. But now I feel like I haven't been doing enough for Jerry. It's soooo haaaaarrrrrd. He really is so difficult to motivate. I know we do stuff,' [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 8:33pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Mice and Lizards and Rats, Oh My!

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    I want you all (all two of you) to know that I just picked up a live mouse by the tail, with my bare hands, took him outside, tossed him (not as gently as I had intended) into the bushes and yelled "run for your life!" as I held Ravenpaw [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 1:06am EDT
    by Colleen

  • This Fire

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    is really getting me down. My favorite hiking area is right at the center of the fire. It's silly but I feel like I've lost a good friend. I actually cried today when I found out.

    In happier news, we've had visitors from New Zealand staying with us for' [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 12:09am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Water Balloon Slingshot: The Movie

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    Last week we made a water balloon slingshot and took it out to Griffith Park to give it a try. What a blast! Here's a little movie that Warren put together with the video footage and a few pictures:

    And while most other school-aged kids were sitting at' [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 1:41pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Two In A Row!

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    What the heck is going on? You get nothing but the same old post greeting you for weeks and then suddenly there are two posts in a row. I'll tell you what's happening. A heat wave. It was 106 degrees in the sun today (99 in the shade). And it' [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 9:25pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Paris Pics

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    Here we are at the train station in Tours waiting for the train to Paris. We ended up with the very same taxi driver on both trips to and from the train station. Weird, huh?
    The apartment in Paris was a studio in Monmartre at the [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Blogging Again, Really

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    Has it really been almost three weeks since that last post? Sorry about that. I'm going to be better from now on. I swear. I've been home for almost a week now but I keep thinking I need to post those Paris pictures and it's overwhelming so I've been putting' [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 11:40am EDT
    by Colleen

  • France - Week Two

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    I'm finally posting photos of our second week (plus a few days) in France. Here are some photos of the house we stayed in. This is the living room. It turns out we had a lot of books and CDs in common with the people we swapped with. They said' [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 1:02am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Honest Scrap

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    Holly at Unschool Days has given me an award!

    It's an "Honest Scrap Award," given to bloggers who:
    1) write soul-bearingly, thus exposing themselves to possible ridicule
    2) have blogs that are "brilliant" in either content or design

    Thanks Holly!

    So, [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 11:52am EDT
    by Colleen

  • France - Week One

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    Yes, after many weeks of blog neglect I am finally posting photos from our first week in France. Here we are arriving at Charles de Gaul on day one. We took the bullet train from there to Tours, then caught a taxi to the house.
    We [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 3:21pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Caught Up In The Madness Of CARS

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    I know I should be working on that first France post, but we did something yesterday that I have to tell you about because it's 5:30 am and I can't sleep until I get it off my chest. We bought a new car. Not "new to us" like we usually [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 8:23am EDT
    by Colleen

  • We're Back!

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    It's 5 am and Jerry and I are wide awake. We arrived in Sacramento late last night after almost 24 hours of travel (if you count subway and layover time). I did start to write one post while we were in France and managed to upload a bunch [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 7:57am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Ahhhhhhhh!!!

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    We're leaving tomorrow! Anime Expo (with four kids in tow) today, breakfast with our neighbor, then pack and leave town tomorrow, 4th of July party in Sacramento on Saturday and a flight out of the country bright and early Sunday morning. I can't believe the time has gone by so [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:59am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Bliss

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    We interrupt this month of mayhem to bring you three hours of absolute bliss.

    In truth, I'm the one who got three hours of bliss. But I'll share it with you. Granted, it won't be as blissful for you as it was for me. Yesterday, in between working for' [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • I'm On A Roll

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    Posting three days in a row! Can you believe it?! Of course, I don't have all that much to say today. I will, however, show you pictures of our guest room which has just been painted a color that I love, love, love! I couldn't be bothered to change the [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 11:24am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Surprise Guests & Travel Prep

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    This morning we've been visited by that rarest of beasts (in this neck of the woods, anyway) known as the clean kitchen. That's right, folks. The dishes are washed, dried and put away. The counter is free of magazines, bills, batteries, legos, screwdrivers, foam clown noses, DS games and other' [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 11:33am EDT
    by Colleen

  • It's Been Ages

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    I know! I've been overwhelmed, in the best possible way, with out of town guests, getting ready for our house swap, and trying to help Jerry stay "un-bored." There's so much I want to tell you, but while all this work is looking me in the eye I can't relax [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 6:15pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Smile!

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    Doesn't that make you happy?' [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 1:36am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Home At Last!

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    We're finally home. And we made it just in time for a quick shower, an even quicker dinner and Video Games Live at the Greek. We must have had a good luck fairy looking over our shoulder because not only were we at the front of a line of' [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
    by Colleen

  • Welcome Ezra!

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    Waiting an extra day (and a couple tablespoons of castor oil) paid off. Ezra Kelley O'Brien was born last night at 10:59 p.m., during a lightening storm, just one hour after his mom arrived at the birth center.


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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 11:27am EDT
    by Colleen

  • Fun While We Wait. And Wait. And Wait.

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    I know I said I would post more about the conference but I've moved on in life and it's hard to go back. I'll just add that it's difficult to think of a way the conference could have been better and leave it at that. Oh, and I'll also add' [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 11:04am EDT
    by Colleen

  • LIFE Is Good 2009 Review

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    This is my third attempt to write about the LIFE is Good Unschooling Conference. Let's hope it's charmed. In a few words: IT WAS GREAT!!!

    In a few more...

    The adventure began on Tuesday, May 19, when Jerry and I packed up the car (dog included) and started [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2009, 9:57am EDT
    by Colleen
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