SCHOLA: Apartment hunting

Monday, June 21, 2004

Apartment hunting

Tomorrow, while we are over in Fort Lauderdale, G and I are going to go look at three of the new high rise apartment buildings that have been added in the downtown renaissance. G has been staying at a string of hotels on his trips over to the east coast, and we figured the amount of money we're spending is equivalent to a real place. But we are not, repeat, NOT going to buy anything. Not until we know where we're going to end up.

All three are within walking distance to the Museum of Discovery and Science, the Museum of Art (which I see has changed its address from the unfortunate "museumofart.org"), my favorite main library branch, Broward Center for the Performing Arts and the New River with its free Sunday jazz concerts.

We're planning on one year, until we know what's going on with the Fort Pierce project. We'll re-evaluate it then. Meantime, we still have the island for a getaway.

Fort Lauderdale is certainly not NYC or Chicago, but it's got enough to keep us busy for awhile. All you city folks, you realize of course, this is your fault.

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.