A Homeschool Story

Bike on water...or along it, to all the beautiful, wild places you did not know were right in your backyard until you saw them from your bi...

If but for the squirrels...well, not only the squirrels, there is also the invisible-ish fence I put in place for the dog who chases after ...

...I'm afraid my Portuguese neighbor's old adage; "good accounts make good neighbors," as he was giving me change for 5 ce...

I knew my creative energy...or simply all of my energy that was not spent cooking, cleaning and chauffering, must have gone somewhere the p...

Here is the first produce out of our garden this year, this was April 28th. The chives, oregano and thyme simply returned, like the tulips a...

I picked up this book while dusting the other day and had a look back through it; it is all about the lost arts of housekeep...

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...