Unschoold

Update: where my mind & heart have been lately

Arp — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:10:33 +0000

I thought I would share a bit about our life at the moment and how it’s affecting Unschoold. As I mentioned in the last page, we spent 14 months in Costa Rica and returned mainly due to the isolation. We are living with my parents until fall, working on building up our income before we [...]

We may be on a desert island, but we’re not alone!

Arp — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:12:09 +0000

This was going to be a much more boring comic, a variant on 8 minute dating for families (which was an activity/icebreaker at Great Big Happy Life last week – Sandra Dodd posted a little video of it). I eventually realized that it would be a boring sequence of talking heads and trashed it in [...]

Recent reading: La Perdida & Persepolis

Arp — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0000

I grabbed La Perdida (by Jessica Abel) when I saw it on the shelf at the library. It rang a bell (I later remembered that I own her book Drawing Words and Writing Pictures), but it turned out to be GREAT. It was so real that I thought it was autobiographical. It’s about a twenty-something Mexican-American [...]

Color + honesty – stick figures = new comic formula

Arp — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:37:53 +0000

Hey – I’m technically still on schedule since it is Monday! I’m glad I got this done as I may need to take a break for a couple of weeks to focus on producing income. Plusd next Monday we’ll be off to Great Big Happy Life, so a new comic in two weeks is most [...]

Recent reading: Amulet & Artemis Fowl

Arp — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:09:09 +0000

Since we returned from Costa Rica I’ve been totally stoked to have proper library access again. It’s nice to see the graphic novel shelves expanding too, and I picked up a couple of things that all of us – adults & kids – enjoyed. This has been especially great for DS7 as he’s extremely visual [...]