The latest episode of my waldorf guilt. If you haven’t been reading along, these are the posts in which I wring my hands over how un-waldorfy things can get around here, and how I tend to feel guilty about it. Or try to justify why I don’t feel guilty. I’ve been feeling less and less [...]

It’s time for me to report back to you on whether I deserve a pat on the head or a kick in the butt on my book project. Finding interesting photos for this project is sure to be a challenge in itself. My goal is to write a draft of a chapter each month. I [...]

This weekend, Lulu and I went on retreat with our mother-daughter group, to the hostel in Point Reyes. It was a glorious weekend. The eight pairs of mothers and daughters formed from our homeschooling support group, back when the girls were eleven and twelve. A few of the girls have left the larger group to [...]

On New Year’s morning, I woke to find a message in my inbox telling me that Scott Russell Sanders had left a comment on my blog. Sanders was my essayist for October, and reading his message was such a thrill, and a closing more satisfying than I ever could have imagined for my year-long project.  [...]

I decided against posting my thoughts on my essayist project just yet. I thought that maybe two essayist posts in a row might be about as thrilling as back-to-back episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger. I’ve been thinking about how homeschooling ebbs and flows. There are days and weeks when the kids come up with projects [...]

It’s time for the last installment in My Year of Excellent Essayists. random notes: If you’ve been reading here for a year now (and how lucky I am if you have), you’ll remember that it was my thoughts on Adam Gopnik that inspired this project. I started 2009 bemoaning the fact that after years of [...]