Neurospicy signifies a difference in traits that add interest to the human recipe. The term Neurospicy conveys the idea that Neurodivergent (ND) traits are not undesirable, but simply different. Embracing the Neurospicy means celebrating the different ways our brains and bodies process information while promoting acceptance, and rejecting bias, stigma, and intolerance. During the last ..read more

As the parent of an unschooler, my priority is to facilitate the intrinsically driven passions of my child in connection and partnership. The rabbit holes he explores are often nothing like I would expect a typical child in school to experience. Perhaps that is because children are not typical, only standardization tries to coerce them to be so. Facilitating my child on his individual journey involves trusting that his expression is authentic and necessary, whatever form it takes.  ..read more

My body has not yet mastered how to process this knowledge without the constant, high levels of cortisol pulsating throughout my cells, electrifying the crises tapes in my subconscious programming ..read more

We are a social system, and we are individual humans leveling up. None of us wants to be compromised in any way, but if we are (for any reason), let us hope it is for the sake of a greater good ..read more

Their minds are already way beyond the broken record admonishment of adults. Sometimes, they are on while admitting they had to sneak due to being grounded. I chuckle at their inventiveness. Sean has never been grounded. It makes absolutely no sense to me because punishment does not reinforce intrinsic values. I'd want these kids in charge during the Zombie Apocalypse ..read more

I pause to give guilt good circumspect, tilt my head for a thorough examination of the path I've just traversed and conclude: There is no space for guilt in gratitude ..read more

Her expressions of generosity connect more than her own being to the greater field of richness, beauty, and the authentic value of all things, no matter how small. She became as a quantum thread, piecing together the entirety of all that touched her life with love and care ..read more

Today, a new direction blossomed. Had anyone been hanging around like a fly on the wall, they might have missed its origins. Unschooling in whole life is a process, not a trajectory with tiered way points. If you aren't facilitating in connection, you will miss the cues that signal the oncoming organic bloom ..read more

None of this matters when the messages I see are ones that have silenced me in my life for more than five decades - be nice, be kind, don't make waves, don't discuss these topics, be quiet, women must act a certain way, don't offend others, don't upset the apple cart, nice women aren't assertive, etc. None of this matters more than advocating for anti-racism and the most basic sovereign rights of other human beings ..read more

October 31, 2020 Happy Halloween! This is the first year my son didn’t Trick-or-Treat, though he still hung out with friends. If he were in school, my son would have six more years of enrollment ahead of him, including the current year. That seems like a long time. I am grateful that I have been ..read more