backyard, april 2005 Because I am tired of writing this blog series. I will get back to it, in some guise in September, but for now such earnestness seems tedious. san sebastian, spain, 2005 Because I’m missing photography. Recently I took on the crushing task of uploading every single one of our family’s digital photos [...]
Hello, Patricia! I really enjoy your blog. I have printed out various posts to keep in my homeschool library. My two kids are 12 and 9. When I suggested a writing group, they said they were not interested. When I suggested they try NaNoWriMo last November, they were not interested. I regularly ask my 12-year-old to [...]
Mr. T finished his Periodic Tale of Marvel Characters. I think it’s rather glorious. You can view the project close-up in this scrollable view on my Flickr page. It was a challenge to get all of those characters into one shot. You may remember me writing about the project back in November, after T first [...]
The brave and lovely Heather Caliri interviewed me for her blog A Little Yes. If you don’t yet know Heather, you really ought to click on over to her blog and read about all the ways she adds yes to her vocabulary, even if it gets her doing little things like, say, moving her whole family [...]
A few years ago I sat in a coffee shop, preparing for a homeschool conference workshop I’d be giving at the hotel next door, on writing with kids. There was a family a few tables over. They wore conference name tags so I knew they were homeschoolers. The two parents chatted while their son did a [...]
“So, what did I do with my kids? Well, I unschooled them. But like a lot of wives out there, my husband wasn’t always as supportive of unschooling. He has trust issues (and after all the years he spent in school, no wonder he did). So, every once in awhile he would have me do [...]
Evidence of my own mentorship. Enough about teaching and standards and intiatives! Feel free to go raise muck in the intriguing comments of that last post if you’re still riled up; otherwise let’s move on to the fun stuff: mentoring. As much as I want to prance into the hows of mentoring, I think we need to [...]