SCHOLA: Milestones

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Milestones

Gracie has reached a level of educational achievement that eluded me in my school days. She can produce a noise from her armpit by vigorously pumping the limb up and down that sounds like breaking wind. She is branching out after perfecting her technique and is currently working on producing the same sound with the backs of her knees. I am one proud Mama.

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Channeling Sally Field: "They like me! They really like me!" Though in Ms. Field's case she scored a statuette. Did you know about this?!

Big surprise for me when I went to go vote via Mental Multivitamin's link last night. In two categories yet. I don't expect to win, but finding myself among such fine company, it truly is an honor just to be nominated. My sincerest thanks to my nominator and any potential voters. After agonizing over my choices, I juggled my votes and managed, after getting my daughter to log in and vote also, to cover all my buddies.

Did anyone vote for themselves? I thought long and hard about this and wondered if the leader of the free world might ever possibly consider casting his vote for the other guy. Can you imagine George W. punching John Kerry's ticket in the voting booth? Yeah, me too.

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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.