SCHOLA: I don't have a pot to...

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

I don't have a pot to...

...cook in.

During our packing madness, we opted to give every bit of our oddball camp cooking equipment, all we had been using since Hurricane Charley struck last year, to a local homeless shelter. Both of us were certain that after settling in here, the box with all our regular pots and pans would ultimately turn up and we would have a nice matched set again.

Whoops.

I am thankful for, as well as disgusted by, Walmart, where I can find something 24 hours a day to boil potatoes in.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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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.