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Oct. 17, 2013
Sonlight to me
Jonelle's blog post from earlier this week made me stop and think what Sonlight means to me. I enjoyed reading her comments, and wondered how mine might differ. Sonlight has certainly been a large part of my life for the … Continue reading
Oct. 14, 2013
Why Life-Long Learning is a Natural Part of Exploration
Every new task you do will require you to learn something. Even flushing a toilet. Years ago, as a young man, I spent a week in the UK. We were in a bed and breakfast and the toilet had an … Continue reading
Tagged life-long learning, questions, science, statistics, travel
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Jun. 19, 2013
What Went Well This Year?
Heather Sanders has a good post on how praising your kids can backfire. It reminded me of the article about how we should praise a person's efforts rather than intelligence. If you haven't at least skimmed the article, please do … Continue reading
Tagged Encouragement, grades, life-long learning, praise
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Jun. 18, 2013
A few simple lessons
I returned home from Milwaukee late Sunday night. My mom, sister-in-law Brittany, and I had met up with my sister Amy for a weekend training class on urban gardening at Growing Power. I thought I'd share a few thoughts as … Continue reading
Tagged life-long learning, travel
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Jun. 12, 2013
Life-Long Learning: Advanced Math
Even with the A/C wheezing from running in the heat, the car is hot. We're talking about the Numberphile YouTube videos we were watching moments before this excursion to get burritos. "Those videos remind me of why I changed majors." … Continue reading
Tagged apologetics, life-long learning, math
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Mar. 15, 2013
Your Interest-Led Learning
I bought a Digital SLR camera a while ago to have one more resource in my film making bag. The minute I got I home, I sat down to learn how to use it and make it a more powerful … Continue reading
Dec. 19, 2012
Life-Long Learning: Scalable Vector Graphics
I've known about vector graphics for a long time. I'd even heard about .svgs quite awhile ago. But now that the resolution on our screens is getting so much higher, it's time to start learning about how to implement these … Continue reading