The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in field trip on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 10:09 am GMT -6
The Damsel has a little community/forum thingy for people to ask and answer questions about self-reliance. She’s created a poll there and would appreciate your participation. An extra recess for those who do! In order to see the poll, please scroll down and look for the yellow box that says “The Damsel and Friends.” Then [...]
Posted in field trip on Friday, May 7th, 2010 09:22 pm GMT -6
Today’s class is a little different. Today we’ll go on a field trip to meet an amazing young woman. You could search the world and perhaps never find a more inspiring person–someone who has made the deliberate choice to accept God’s will for her, even though this means that nearly everything she assumed about her [...]
Posted in field trip on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 10:28 am GMT -6
Today at the Old School we’re going on a field trip. Happy 200th Birthday, Fryderyk Chopin, old school piano genius. (painting by Eugene Delacroix, a close friend) You were the Damsel’s first love. Yes, even before Brett Richards, who lived in town and had beautiful brown eyes and hair that waved down over his collar, [...]
Posted in field trip on Monday, January 25th, 2010 08:58 pm GMT -6
Self-reliance is the main course of study at the Old School. And, being self-reliant and pursuing simplicity go hand in hand in the Damsel’s eyes. She’s always wishing she could take it down a level. Let’s just say some days go better than others when it comes to avoiding the crazy. Yesterday at church, the [...]
Posted in field trip on Monday, June 29th, 2009 01:13 am GMT -6
The Damsel was asked to teach a class about pens. She admits she was surprised about the topic, but once she read a little about it, she found out it’s actually pretty interesting. The most old-school kind of pen is a feather or quill pen, used for a thousand years with practically no change. A [...]
Posted in clothing, field trip on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 09:48 pm GMT -6
Today we’re going on an Old School field trip. Occasionally the class will do this to learn about some fascinating thingy that makes old skills easier. So, today’s class is on the invention of the sewing machine. From the time people were running around in loincloths, there’s been such a thing as sewing. But for [...]
