Can you believe it? It’s already two weeks into the New Year. 2010 doesn’t seem so foreign anymore (and I’m really starting to like it).
Like many others, there are some things I want to get done this year. Best known as New Year’s Resolutions, I see my goals as stepping stones. It’s easier to move along a path if I can see ahead, especially with long term projects, and if I find a more promising fork in the road I’m free to take it.
Sometimes I think people jinx themselves by …

Reading Nancy Darling’s blog post “Getting Kids to Obey” got me thinking. Reading her article isn’t necessary to understand my post, but it does give some context.
When I was eight-years-old, I got my ears pierced. It was an exciting event, and the six weeks I had to wait before changing my earrings felt like forever. I would turn my earrings in my ears, and clean them as best as I could at the time, and peer close in the mirror at my ears – were they healed yet? The day …

I want to share something with you. ( skip to the bottom for the photo )
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to get a couple weeks of training at a local flower shop. I was still going to school at the time, and it was an end of the year event called PRAO ( Praktist arbetslivorientering – lit. “practical job orientation” – see wikipedia ). I would describe it as the opportunity to be an apprentice for a couple weeks. For my peers it was seen as a vacation: …

This fall is a big milestone for me. Three years ago, my mother agreed to homeschool. Due to some complications and a lot of misunderstandings, we found it best for me to continue in school until I was no longer legally obligated.  That legal obligation ended this past May.
In other words, this is my first school year of being free. My peers started school a month ago, and my old friends back in the States are about over with their first week of the ‘09-’10 school year. To say the …

One of the things I enjoy the most about unschooling is the freedom to be spontaneous. It frees your schedule in the way most kids only experience during their couple months or so of summer vacation. With a freedom like that there’s so much more opportunity, so much more than can be done. Or not done, respectively! :^)
It’s a bit why I’ve been so quiet here lately. Life’s full of adventures, and this summer has been full of them. It looks like that’s going to continue well into fall and, …