A Homeschool Story

    It has been a week of work and drives. No, it has been two weeks of working and driving. No wonder I am feeling fresh as a May daffodil....

Landlocked no more! I am on a beach, sand under my feet, with the water within reach, salt droplets spraying my face once again. It is unwor...

There is life after lunch. Right after we’ve had a nice nap to recover from lunch. Which is after the hour of coffee-drinking in the shade...

That has been the sum of my days until 4 pm every day this week. What did I accomplish today? I had lunch. Here is what it takes to make pos...

Land of French, land of snow, what else do you not know about Canada and in particular, that bit of it that is Quebec? As a child growing up...

The food alone in France has its own glossary of words, never mind music, festivals and nature. What is left for you to discover in this gre...

                     The Coldest Day of the Year is Here I went to bed anticipating exactly the sort of day I awoke to, fabulous works of ar...

Relax, pour yourself something nice; green tea, fizzy water or a sparkling glass of champagne to celebrate this new chapter in your life. ...

It seems the most precious things are also the most fragile and closest to our hearts, so we protect them and keep them hidden away. What ha...

I just spent the day with an extraordinary human. I feel more likely to be loving, to appreciate beauty, to honor the true in each person in...

Introducing... French Please, the Podcast !  Find my favorite episode here:  Lost Found and How do I Say That Again? Is French in your drea...

As my husband and I prepare to launch the first of a half a dozen French programs I have been dreaming up for years now, the topic on my min...

Since the very first time I heard someone speak in Spanish, I was probably six or seven, and it was on a train in Chicago, all three of the...

Today my love and I celebrate 25 years of marriage. Here is a spot that has always been special, a place where we first camped, as practica...

...or something equally unpleasant, has invaded our days and nights, only one child, for now, for two days, but there is not much else occu...

Once upon a time a girl left Iowa to see the world; this time to the north of Spain; Euskal Herria. The first time she left, she had been 1...

Photos brought to you by budding photographer, Valentine, below: Valentine had the idea for a photo-shoot amid the field of ...