Ellie - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Unschooling Earth mama, vegetarian turned vegan turned vegetarian again, liberal, introspective

My Interests

Nature, my kids and husband, unschooling, our treehouse, painting/decorating, dancing, meditation, spirituality without religion, theater, energy healing, alternative health

I'd like to meet:

Joni Mitchell, Gandhi, other unschoolers who live nearby

Music:

Joni Mitchell, Celtic folk, Interpol, Kate Bush, Eva Cassidy, Andrew Bird, Chris Bryers, Get Up Kids, Laurie Anderson...and lots more.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Waiting for Guffman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mean Girls, Saved, Lord of the Rings, The Edukators

Television:

24, American Idol (yes, really), The Daily Show, Scrubs

Books:

William Upski Wimsatt's No More Prisons and Bomb the Suburbs, The Yellow Wallpaper, mindless thrillers, Zen Shorts and The Giving Tree (children's books)

Heroes:

People who think outside the box, people with heart and mind, my kids, whoever invented coffee

My Blog

Straddling two worlds

I find myself more and more realizing just how much I fall in between two universes. On the one hand, I'm a stay-at-home mom, my husband has a 9-5 office job, we own a house, two cars, etc. ...
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:00:00 PST

Christian feminists?

So, my question is this: can a woman (or a man, for that matter) be a feminist and a Christian? Or a Muslim? Or a Jew? Aren't all of these religions inherently patriarchal? Can...
Posted by Ellie on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:19:00 PST

Death to Barney

My kids are singing a song about killing Barney, which their friend taught them. And they say homeschooled kids don't get socialized. What's more socialized than violence? I mean really, t...
Posted by Ellie on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:48:00 PST