SCHOLA: Remakes and Sequels

Friday, July 15, 2005

Remakes and Sequels

Today, after dropping off the check for the second session of kayak camp, Sarabelle, Gracie, and I are going to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Elle is spending the weekend with Nana and Papa which gives us all a bit of a break.

Then tonight, we'll be up late for the 12:00:01 AM release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The party starts about an hour before and will no doubt be covered by the press, like last time, with the added story of being the first big event hosted since Port Charlotte's one and only bookstore is back in business after Hurricane Charley. Introvert me doesn't mind too much -- I will have my invisibility cloak on.

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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.