This happens often. I’ll be chatting with a new homeschooler, and this person will ask what we do each day. I’ll explain that we aren’t unschoolers, that we have a habit of doing something together most days, but that I try to follow my kids and their interests. At this point the fellow chatter usually [...]

I’m killing off the chapter-a-month challenge. Right here, right now. Line right up and get photos while the guillotine comes down. I decided to put the project out of its misery, rather than count off the months that had passed while I did not write a chapter a month. It was a noble little project, [...]

There’s nothing like summer to get you all atwitter! A few things that have me worked up: Santa Rosa plums. We planted our tree as an afterthought, an espaliered affair that hides behind our outdoor fireplace. But it gets lots of southerly sun, and it’s just above our bees so we got an unexpected bonanza [...]

First off, if you haven’t visited the comments on my audiobook post, go! The comments are utterly chockablock with audiobook recommendations. I have such resourceful, generous readers! I can almost guarantee that you will be compelled to follow up your visit to those comments with a visit to your local library website. (And if you [...]

A few months back when I asked for your help, you showed up in the comments like kind neighbors with casseroles at the house of a sick person. Would you do it again? Can you tell me about your family and audiobook listening? I’m starting a chapter on audiobooks for my book. (My book! Remember [...]

I had such grand plans. Plans to post from each new place we visited on our trip. (But we didn’t always have internet. And three of us with computers had to share we one Northern European adapter. Plus, there wasn’t always time for blog posts: we were on vacation.) I had plans to keep a [...]