It is been about 5 or 6 weeks since my car accident. Well it wasn't bad, I just got my car back and I've been incredibly jumpy since it happened. I am not exactly known for being patient in the car, I've been working on reflecting on a why I tend to get so angry with other drivers who I feel are driving erratically or irresponsibly. I realize now ( Read more... )

It's like I have asbestos in my soul. In the itching has become so commonplace that I don't even notice I'm doing it. I don't know what part of my body is going to itch next but I just feel a sense of being uncomfortable and dissatisfied they're constantly lately. It's as if it's under my clothing against my skin and both wants to stay there and ( Read more... )

I don't know what leads me to do these posts in the car from time to time. I look back and well my text-to-speech program often sucks and gets things really wrong, I still laugh at the fact that they'll have a drought for numerous months and then have a spat of post when I'm just feeling a bit reflective on my drive ( Read more... )

It's funny as I drive to work this morning that I realize that I really don't have too many complaints about my commute. It is almost exclusively Highway both ways and while the afternoon jam up near the city is inconvenient, most of the time the morning is smooth sailing. Even if it's not, there are numerous Alternatives that I can take. I think ( Read more... )

It's been a beautiful Autumn. It's interesting because it didn't really start in Earnest until the last week in October and the following two weeks were just absolutely stunning. Thankfully, I got out several times and got to enjoy it before the leaves came down. The last week has been rainy and raw. Close to snow but just a lot of rain. There's ( Read more... )

There is absurdity on every side in our country right now. I want to look at everyone posting a meme and everyone having a flippant or snarky comment to the other side to ask themselves if they really are doing anything to make the situation better? It is hilarious to me that by keeping people of many different views on my Facebook I get to see ( Read more... )

What I'm studying is self-directed education at alone and Community down near Danbury Connecticut. The premises that self-directed education has been the main form of throughout the history of man. The period of public school and formal, Saturday schooling is a bit of an anomaly in human history, but a necessary one. Public schools and ( Read more... )

I'm a pallbearer at a funeral today. It is very interesting for this to occur, and it's also been interesting to see how I process through it. I looked at the etiquette of a pallbearer cuz I've never been one before and ruminated a bit on that roll. I feel that especially in grief it helps to have a Duty or role to focus on. Especially when the ( Read more... )

So, Memorial Day weekend of this year we committed to a ketogenic way of eating. That is slowly turned into a whole food way of eating. We broke for vacation in early August and it was enjoyable, and we took a couple days off this weekend just to see what would happen. It is been a long couple of days full of mood swings and lack of energy. I can ( Read more... )

This is a random research related to journal entry. So my doctoral thesis focuses on self-efficacy in a non-public school setting as a case study. However my larger educational anthropological Focus is on the value of Education, particularly public education, in America. I am reading a great article that compares the school choice movement of the ( Read more... )