<\/a><\/center>I crashed with my old friend Tom Fiori (from Bakersfield and UC Berkeley) and his wife in Miami. He’s a radical anarchist, and we don’t see eye-to-eye on many things politically nowadays, but it was great to hang with him nonetheless.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center>In Asheville, Tara Dean (another former Unschool Adventuree) and her friend found us while driving across the country. A few days later, Tara was taking off to volunteer in Africa delivering babies. Dang unschoolers!<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center>Fast forward to March 23-26, where I presented a ton of workshops at the InHome Conference\u2014a 1000-person, all-inclusive homeschooling conference drawing people from all over the midwest. Here I led a teen workshop entitled “Indescribable Sexiness” (edited by the conference board to “Indescribable Attraction”).<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/center>Many former Unschool Adventurees were at this conference! Featured here (from the top-left, clockwise): Aytch, Nicolette (who applied to go on a trip that was canceled), Paige, and Claire.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center>They helped me run my exhibitor booth, along with Erica and Luke.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center>You gotta watch out at these homeschooling conferences\u2014lots of tricky Christian games and curricula out there. Here, someone apparently redesigned the (excellent and non-religious) game “Settlers of Catan” to become “Settlers of Canaan”, where your goal is to lead your tribe of Israelites to salvation or something. I was offered 20% off because I told the guy that I was going to India, which he immediately assumed was discount-deserving missionary work.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center>But really, the highlight of the whole conference was seeing my name on a foil balloon. What more does the human heart desire?<\/p>\n
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