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		<title>the magic of totoro</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/04/06/the-magic-of-totoro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family and children&#8217;s films that deliver more than clichéd and tired good-versus-evil dichotomies laden with gender role stereotypes, gratuitous violence, and the subtle hypersexualization of young girls are hard to come by. If you are as fed up with the formulaic plot driven junk churned out for children by American cinema as I am, check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rockin&#8217; the inhome conference</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/03/29/rockin-the-inhome-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes our fears get the best of us. But other times our desire to become more than we are today pushes us past those fears into risky territory&#8211;full of promise and peril. For adults this can be life shaking. For kids, it&#8217;s just growing up. This past weekend, Aidan who is 7 now showed us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>smiling mindfully</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/01/23/smiling-mindfully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A smile is the beginning of peace.&#8221; Driving the other day I saw this saying on a sign of a local roofing company that always posts different quotes/sayings. I thought this to be a serendipitous sighting that fit nicely with my life lately. Many of the books that I&#8217;ve picked up to read recently focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>learn free, a film by lillian mauser-carter</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/01/02/learn-free-a-film-by-lillian-mauser-carter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This film came across the wire recently. It&#8217;s a great little piece about unschooling. Mauser-Carter is using it as a means to raise funding for a feature length film she plans to make on the subject. The film does a fine job of offering authentic perspectives on an oft-misunderstood approach to life, learning, and parenting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>only the cool boys like pink!</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/12/14/only-the-cool-boys-like-pink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pink, blue, purple, green&#8211;aren&#8217;t these all just colors, beautiful colors of our world?! I really don&#8217;t understand why people associate colors, or anything else for that matter, so completely with one gender or the other. Why can&#8217;t a boy get a purple folder? Why can&#8217;t a girl get a plastic frog to play with? And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>unschooling: the short answer</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/08/01/unschooling-the-short-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just doing a bit of reading and came upon this inspiring description of what it means to unschool your whole life. Of course, many folks understand that we &#8220;homeschool,&#8221; but no one in our immediate circle seems to get the fuller sense of how we live&#8211;and strive to live&#8211;our lives. It seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gentle steps towards unschooling ourselves</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/05/01/gentle-steps-towards-unschooling-ourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2010/05/01/gentle-steps-towards-unschooling-ourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 17:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just about over two years ago, Christine and I made a committed decision not to pursue traditional public or private school education for our son Aidan. Rather, we decided to homeschool. &#8220;Homeschool&#8221;&#8211;that&#8217;s what we called it &#160;Joyful Livingtentatively when we decided. It&#8217;s the most recognizable term referring to a wide array of alternative approaches toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a lot of cunt, ass, and napalm</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/03/14/a-lot-of-cunt-ass-and-napalm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been thinking about the general moral sensibilities of our American public. You often hear of Americans being somewhat repressed when it comes to sexuality and the like&#8211;certainly as compared to European mindsets. What strikes me as odd, though, is that while nudity, sex, and matters of our physical human bodies make so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the hard bigotry of low expectations</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/11/20/the-soft-hard-bigotry-of-low-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2009/11/20/the-soft-hard-bigotry-of-low-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting harder and harder for me to keep fighting the good fight&#8211;to expect anything other than mediocrity from me, from my students, and from the apathetic masses barely shuffling through life. The other day, I received this all-caps e-mail from a student&#8217;s mother. I changed the case because the all-caps hurt my eyes. Dear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no x-rays, no service &#8212; seriously??</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/10/28/no-x-rays-no-service-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, today I took Aidan to the dentist for a regular check-up and cleaning. Overall it was a good check-up &#8212; no cavities, five loose teeth, one new molar, and everything looked healthy. However, the moment when I said we didn&#8217;t want x-rays I was then informed by our dentist that if we decide not [...]]]></description>
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