‘Learn­ing All The Time’ was the title of John Holt’s last book, com­plet­ed after his death using mate­r­i­al he orig­i­nal­ly wrote for my ear­ly home edu­ca­tion ‘bible’, the newslet­ter called Grow­ing With­out School­ing. With the right atti­tude of mind you too can be ‘learning all the time’ no mat­ter what your age, despite going to […]

I can’t count the num­ber of times I’ve been in house­holds with noisy, irri­ta­ble and tem­pera­men­tal pets.  In just about every case the tem­pera­ment of the pets par­al­lels the irri­tabil­i­ty of the ‘parents’ – usu­al­ly with each oth­er! Then they top it all off by hav­ing chil­dren (usu­al­ly they get a dog and then decide to have […]

Why does a can of Green Giant sliced mush­rooms state that it’s from Indone­sia and yet a sim­i­lar size can of Del Monte beets doesn’t state the coun­try of ori­gin?  But then nei­ther does the super­mar­ket brand of beets!  Should I real­ly be check­ing up on the coun­try of ori­gin of major ‘trusted’ US brands of […]

I may have men­tioned that I have a won­der­ful friend who has already made me two fine quilts – they would be ‘Fine quilts from Nebraska’! She has said that she has quilts for each of my sons ‘in the work­s’ – how lucky can we get? Thus the top­ic of quilts and sewing often comes […]