Food Cravings During Pregnancy (Silliness)

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

Pregnancy: a time when my body had a very strong-willed mind of its own, a time when I was blindly obedient to the commands of my food cravings. Not satiating a food craving was punishable by nausea. Nausea was a ...

"Lilith-tov" (silliness)

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

I’m sitting in a huge bus with other girls my age. We are headed to a youth camp and I am very excited. I feel more like I am seated on a sofa and less like I am riding on ...

French, Dreams, and Learning

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

I am having a difficult time learning French. It's not finding a sticky place in my brain. Yesterday, I forced myself to listen to a French talk-radio station (France Info 105.5 FM) that I found on the internet. French conversations ...

Slow Motion - Sigur Rós "Staralfur" (video)

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

One evening I was bored so I began to follow tweeted links and ended up at an interesting article, “Slow Down,” over at The Beautiful Brain. It was a little write-up about how our perception of time can be distorted ...

“Every human is a magician..."

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

Friday morning, as I made my usual trek to the coffee pot, my nine year old popped up and excitedly exclaimed, “I fixed your computer! It runs faster now.” “Oh really? What did you do?” He proudly answered, “I deleted ...