A Homeschool Story

I am supposed to be writing a speech. A short one about homeschooling and what it is, and to introduce myself. It is for a panel on educati...

...for the days when I was homeschooling five kids, making candles, taking hikes, having all the time in the world and not knowing it. ...

February is always the month where spring starts to sound like a really good idea that is really far away. I love the winter though, and th...

This is it, the one poetry volume you need from pre-school to high school and beyond. It contains a beautiful selection of classical poetry...

When the weather is dismal and energy levels inspire more to crawling back under the covers than to deep study and hard work, the homeschoo...

With a wicked snow storm assailing our eastern coast in the U.S. and the ground in the Midwest converted to a frozen tundra, not to mention...

I wish you a joyful, peace-filled, healthy, prosperous new year, from my family to you and yours. May the light of a hundred suns shine gen...

...and I love it all; the Solstice, the dark, the candles, Yule, Santa and the manger waiting for Baby Jesus. The tree is up, there is choc...

Plodding away...like a big old farm horse, not real sexy or going anywhere fast, but some progress is still progress. That is what the past...

This is called my "Fix to a Loosey-Goosey Blanket". I am tying it on to a piece of fleece with yarn and needle. I've spread i...

I am curled up in a warm, furry robe, the only one awake, which is, in itself, a reason to be grateful. They are all in their beds, at home...

Halloween: (in which literary-based costumes rule: Alice and the Mad Hatter)

Or technically; preventing dementia through early rising and enough sleep. This particular bit of advice is both to myself and to validate ...

There is something simply incongruous about returning home from an exam (French) to which I gave all of my energy for two months, to hear t...