We have just returned from the Life is Good Unschooling Conference.  Attending these gatherings is an extremely important part of unschooling for me.  When people are new at unschooling I always tell them, don’t try and do this alone.  Find your people, or as many of you say “find your tribe”.  I am someone who [...]

We returned from the UWWG (Unschooler’s Winter Waterpark Gathering) yesterday.  A fabulous time was had by all and many, many thanks to all the organizers!  While, most unschooling conferences are smaller, and are geared toward unschoolers and the unschooling interested, the UWWG is a bit different since it’s open for homeschoolers to unschoolers and [...]

In 1 week’s time we’re all getting on a plane and flying to Sandusky, OH for the Unschooler’s Winter Waterpark Gathering. We’ve been every year since 2008, the very first year. This year TJ and I are speaking in addition to some volunteering.
Here is a partial description from the program.
Modeling is For Clay: [...]

We’ve just returned from the Northeast Unschooling Conference. We had a fabulous time and thank Kathryn and Beth for all their hard work and dedication. It really takes some very special people to make this happen and they are two of the most passionate people you could ever meet.

To be able to sit [...]

Facebook killed my blog. So I’m killing Facebook. Well, not totally. I’m keeping it as a means of communication but I’m not playing like I used to. I love my blog to much to neglect it so badly. I love to write, I love to really think and analyze and [...]

I still don’t have my laptop back. I’ve been reduced, once again, to using the deathly slow and confusing Mac. I shouldn’t even capitalize it, it’s more like a mac. You know the mac commercials… the ones that say mac’s “just work”? Well, they don’t. Not even close. This [...]

We attended the UWWG again this year. I know this is a little late, but I’ve struck with a bit of the post conference blues, and the post conference sicknesses have struck every member of my family in one way or another. Next time, everyone is getting juiced up on Emergen-C before we [...]

I left Live and Learn feeling intensely positive. I felt happy and refreshed, empowered and affirmed, my love tank was full, and I added many new tools to my collection. As I’m writing this Friday morning, I’m feeling quite the opposite of all those things. The questioning keeps crawling up my spine. [...]

One thing that I really like about conferences is that I feel an intense amount of freedom. Any hang-ups I might have in real life seem to completely disappear when I’m surrounded by unschoolers. I also realize how strong social pressure can be at home. Once it’s lifted, I feel as though [...]

What can I say? I didn’t want to leave. Did anyone want to leave? I enjoyed (almost) every minute of every day that I was at the conference. We are physically exhausted. Nevermind the ordeal we had on the way down. We didn’t know that everywhere we walked would [...]