My friend and I are reading Crazy Love By Francis Chan together. I'm really enjoying the book, although it is making me feel...

1. Read The Black Arrow aloud. 2. Realize that the subtitle, "A Tale of Two Roses," makes less than no sense to your target...

Oh, February, February - how you try so hard every year to knock us down. While February inevitably ends up with, in its few...

  Born in Darfur around 1869, captured by slavers as a child, sold, resold and brutally treated, she came to know the Master...

We arrived in So. Cal this past Thursday. When we left Colorado, it had just snowed and we were all bundled up in our winter...

I didn't want to watch the Superbowl, and I didn't watch it, exactly. In fact, I don't even know who won. I even declared my...

Lately I've been toying with cutting flour and processed sugar from my diet (and there was great familial rejoicing. not.)....

History.com has a terrific interactive site featuring Black History Milestones (this link takes you to the page on Jackie...

It just dawned on me that I haven’t shared perhaps the single greatest change I’ve ever made in 30 days time. And...

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The second part of my little series on the sonnet,  Sonnet-Writing Made Simple,  is up today. You can read the first part...

Keynes v. Hayek: not a bad place to start.

Yesterday the rain bucketed dismally down all day;  today we have one of those...

Alternative form of homeschooling embraces child-directed learning 2007 It’s a Tuesday morning. As children throughout the...

Unschooling isn’t a technique – it’s living and learning naturally, lovingly, and respectfully together. The...

I’ve always hated that expression. Grin and bear it. It’s all so…..passive. Like just, be quiet, put a smile on your...

I recently posted about Edmodo, comparing it to Ning for kids. The fact is, it looks and acts more like a Facebook/Twitter...

This weeks question on BTT is: The northern hemisphere, at least, is socked in by winter right now… So, on a cold, wintry...

As of this past Tuesday, a child in my house has become a student in the Foothill Academy of Driving, up the road in Panacea...

Morning Song from "Senlin" I T is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning   When the light drips through the shutters like...

This is Bukka White and "New Frisco Train." I always associate this song with spring, but what the heck.

We are a pretty crafty family. We bake, make, sew, knit, paint, craft. But lately the boys have really not been too...

We’re halfway to our new home state! We drove about 9 hours today, and will do another 7 hours tomorrow–everyone is...

Just in time for Black History Month come three excellent picture books which help teachers discuss the experiences of Black...

Wow, it's been two months - TWO WHOLE MONTHS! - since I've written on my blog. It seems my passion for blogging has all but...

I hesitated to type that 1, for fear that it might lead someone to presume that there will be, in sequence, an Advent 2, 3 &...