Thoughts on beauty and blogging This is a post I’ve been wanting to write, and waiting to write, until I had the time, so I could try to clarify and share some thoughts. I fear that as I write here, too often I seem to be negative when I am blogging about beauty. I’ve criticized […]
Entries from July 2004
Show something beautiful
July 14th, 2004 · 5 Comments
Tags: blog
Lavender fields forever
July 14th, 2004 · Comments Off on Lavender fields forever
Today we walked in fields of purple more photos below…
Tags: family
Keeping Mom and Dad in the education equation
July 14th, 2004 · 3 Comments
Philip Greenspun tonight wondered whether high schools make sense in this era of airplanes and Internet. I’m beginning to wonder if the idea of a local public high school isn’t just a leftover habit from the 19th century when international travel was expensive and time-consuming and telecommunications did not exist. […] But for less than […]
Tags: homeschool
Controlling the roller-coaster
July 13th, 2004 · 1 Comment
From Joi Ito today I learned that schoolkids in Japan will be tagged with RFID: The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids’ movements. The chips will be put onto kids’ schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Needless to say, […]
Tags: news
Danielle Crittenden and Jane Austen, rose-colored glasses and T-shirts
July 13th, 2004 · 1 Comment
I know I’m not the perfect mom… …so I thought I’d give my kids a head start on filling in the gaps, and let them read Danielle Crittenden’s book at an early age…apologies for the poor photo quality…it’s from our pre-digital days… In response to my retro-rose-colored ramblings the other night, Jay reminded me of […]
Tags: women
