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March 22, 2011

bloggy & spring

Filed under: Education,Life,Radical Unschooling — Tags: , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 8:14 pm

i’ve spent the last two days working on a slight overhaul of E’s blog; checking for broken links & making some small changes that he asked for. i think we’re both reasonably happy with it for the time being. go check it out if you want to.

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i don’t think i will be posting a picture for Wordless Wednesday tomorrow, because i don’t have any pictures that are just screaming to be posted… but, something might change at the last minute.

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i’m so happy that Spring is finally here. i’ve been able to open doors & windows to let in fresh air & sunshine — glorious. i have seeds that i need to start sprouting soon. i can’t believe that it will be time to get back to the garden soon! i don’t have my raised beds like i was hoping for, but things will be alright. *must remember to put a pot of catnip on the balcony for the kitties.*

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2009 Called

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March 17, 2011

unattended minors

Filed under: Life,Parental,Radical Unschooling — Tags: , , — michele james-parham @ 10:52 pm

Was I the only child who refused to go into a store when they were young? Was I the only child whose mum let me stay in the car from a very early age onward so I could avoid places like the grocery store, the post office & the bank? Was my mum the only mum who didn’t have the police called on her or have nebby people with nothing better to do than to wait by the car and then yell at her when she came back? I can’t imagine that I was the only one or that my mum was the only one…

Apparently, it’s just not okay to leave children unattended EVER – much less, in a car, in front of the house or post office. I’d really like to discuss my experiences with my own child being unattended at home and in the car, but I’m afraid that a ‘well-meaning’ friend or reader might decide to turn me in. What has this world come to?

End rant.

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March 15, 2011

recipes, pi & vi

Filed under: Entertainment,Grub,Radical Unschooling — Tags: , , , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 3:35 pm

So, i’ve been looking for some different things to cook lately… kind of bored with food and i love food. i’ve found a couple new things that are being veganized and added to the shopping list for this week.

Saag – making this for soup sunday (every sunday is soup day here at the parham palace).

Tortilla & Black Bean Pie - making this on friday evening (I don’t have a spring form pan, but i figure i can make do without one).

I’m looking for a couple ideas for next week and also a couple ideas for a tasty, but cheap dish that can feed a small army – please bombard me with recipes.

*don’t worry about whether or not your recipe is vegetarian/vegan, if things need to be altered to suit the taste of those eating it, i am quite capable of substituting things around.

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marital bliss

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still can’t find the gorram camera battery charger. i’d lose my fracking ass if it wasn’t attached. (wow! that was two sci-fi swear words back to back… i am so much the shazbot)

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helped the kid put together a blog post for Pi day, yesterday. yeah, it’s a day late for you, if you haven’t already seen it, but it’s still cool. here it lives.

and on that note, Elijah and I both think you should check out the lovely and talented Vi Hart; her videos are amazing and a beautiful articulation of the shite running around in my head all day long, every day. enjoy.

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March 2, 2011

wordless wednesday 03.02.11

Filed under: Grub,Monkey Platters,Photographs,Radical Unschooling — Tags: , , , , — michele james-parham @ 6:18 pm

Wordless Wednesday

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February 6, 2011

soup’s up & pink floyd teaches about education

I made soup today.

1lb or 2.5 C cooked lentils
3/4 C cooked brown rice
3/4 C thinly sliced carrot
1 leek, thinly sliced (about a cup)
1/2 a medium sized onion, diced
garlic (I’d suppose as much as you like, I would have used 3 or 4 cloves, but saved it for another meal and used 1 TBS of garlic powder instead)
12 oz mushrooms sliced (any mushrooms will do; I had crimini)
4 C veggie broth
3 C water (or all your liquid could be broth)
1/2 TBS sea salt
1 tsp cracked pepper
olive oil

saute onion, leek & garlic in olive oil. when those are almost translucent, toss in carrots, mushrooms, salt & pepper and cover & continue to cook all that down.

add the rest and bring to a boil. serve with some yummy bread, toast or crackers – i’m making me a sandwich on the side.

enjoy.

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Elijah had a revelation about education:

Elijah: hey, what’s that song, ‘we don’t need no education’?
Me: I’ll look it up for you.
E: but, we do need education!
E: (after watching the video) okay, maybe not that kind of education!

thank you, Pink Floyd.

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Password Reuse

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I was unawares about a cult phenomenon around ‘alot’ until my Dear Other Half showed me the light and I read this blog post. I knew that it is quite common for people to misspell ‘a lot’, but I had no idea that the misspelling has been personified in a sense…  The Internet is a beautiful place.

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thank you to those who made my birthday week great; especially when it wasn’t so great & i needed to cry.

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hoping this week holds all kind of greatness.

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February 5, 2011

birthday week 2011 – day 7 (wind down & linky love)

Today is the last day of my birthday week. I’m winding down.

Going to clean up Legos off the floor so that the almost one year old that I kidsit for tomorrow doesn’t try to eat them.

I see that doing dishes are in my near future.

It’s another beautiful Winter day; currently it’s 38 degrees F and bright and sunny. Almost feels like early Spring.

Unschooling parents are lazy

And so what if we are?

Speaking of ‘Unschooling’, if you are looking for nuggets to strew or you are just looking for a new blog with cool things, try over here.

Desecration (remember, there’s roll-over text people)

Also, Thaddeus Russell’s book, A Renegade History of the United States, came up in a Facebook conversation. Open your mind, drop your white progressive liberal pc politics for a minute and read it.

And then, if you still want something else to read, but are looking for something not so serious, try:  A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used At the Present Day in the Streets of London (1860), by John Camden Hotten

And, last but definitely not least, go check out my Dear Other Half‘s Flickr sets.

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