A Homeschool Story

Rumi was right; there ARE whispers in the wind, just waiting for your ears and mind and heart to open to them. It is the reason to meditate...

Not everything happens for a reason. There may be an order to the world, but it is punctuated with randomness. Yet, when it makes sense, re...

We are not alone; many homeschoolers do this little boogie at one time or another; to school and back again, but I had thought that this ti...

Say "au revoir" to feeling that limitations are greater than possibility, but also to thinking it will all one day be figured out...

My travel project this summer; begun on the airplane, frogged in a cafe in the south-west of France, (never start a lace project on an airpl...

There are always a few; discarded remnants of yesterday's lunch box or this morning's breakfast, tissues that did not make it a...

August 20, 2018: "compulsory", obligatory", "done" seem to be the words which first come to mind when speaking o...

The pumpkin patch picture, in the Burke Family, is the one where we all squish in for a photo, or fifteen, after choosing our pumpkins and g...

I may be the only one not having an identity crises, now that all of my children are in school. The question returns, again and again, ...

The name does not have the same ring to it as Stone Henge or Killarney or Culloden, but New Grange is indeed a mythical and historical wond...

City, town, castle, country, cliffs...and we have only been here for two days. Day one; next post, was spent exploring New Grange, a monume...

Papy had just disappeared through the hedge. I had never seen him do this. He waited, impatiently, for the man mowing the neighbor's la...

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...