Category Archives: Local Life

The Play’s the Thing

or, Shakespeare in Space

By CircleReader | May 7th, 2010
That we can watch such things for free over the internet via PBS is something for which I am immensely grateful. That this is just one more story we share as a family - that's priceless.
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Boy. Dog.

Classic

By CircleReader | March 13th, 2010
A couple scenes from life with the new puppy.
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Reading Aloud: the Words Endure

or, The Cosmic Bedtime Story

By CircleReader | November 17th, 2009
Our family's evening reading together was no more -- and no less -- difficult than all the other things we do together as a family. Day in & day out, this practice of reading builds up a foundation and a bulwark that will strengthen and protect us throughout our lives. Day in & day out, we parents are building up our children, our schools, and our communities, guarding them from a multitude of evils, just by reading aloud.
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

By CircleReader | May 25th, 2009
Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.
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Joy to the World (Bruce Cockburn)

By CircleReader | December 22nd, 2008
Bruce Cockburn's Christmas is a tradition around here. Thanks to Quercus126 for providing this rendition. If you want to hear it played by the man himself, it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YF8nH7J0o
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Never Underestimate the Mom

By CircleReader | August 18th, 2008
One of the things I love about Nicole is her periodic flashes of cheeky brilliance.
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Camp Is Where the Heart Is

By CircleReader | August 7th, 2008
Summer camp is not really about recreation, but about learning the practices of the group--not affluenza, but apprenticeship. For me, Covenant Point was where I learned to love creation and its Lord, and to see his character and presence in the counselors & campers there. So I asked our boys, "At each of these camps, what did you learn? What did you practice?"
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We’re off to see…

By CircleReader | June 7th, 2008
The Lambs & Lettuces!
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Homeschool Moments: Dishing Out BOF, Dealing with Prejudice

By CircleReader | June 1st, 2008
Overcoming prejudice and distrust is not a one-time attitude adjustment, but a continuing journey in the company of people who are not like us, but who may become our civic friends. Such a strategy might go a long way toward more important goals: building a supportive environment for homeschoolers, and reinvigorating the varied practices of education & learning in America today.
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The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More

By CircleReader | May 22nd, 2008
A new map of food sources within a hundred miles of Madison, Wisconsin, shows kind of connection and sharing that will allow us as human societies to learn to be conscious of and take responsibility for the earthly places in which we live and move.
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