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 [...]

As always, the plan was to leave early Wednesday morning, like 5ish, in order to get a good 3 to 4 hours of driving time in before the kids wake up. We’re usually an hour or two late. We left around 9ish. It’s seems that the more children we add to this [...]