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- FREE Sample Classes – Tuesday, January 28, 2025 January 8, 2025
- Book review: Why Literature Still Matters by Jason M. Baxter January 1, 2025
- Hinder not the children: a look at Narration December 30, 2024
- Scenes from 2023-24 classes September 15, 2024
- A Child’s Relations with his World July 28, 2024
- Carrying Aunt Karen Out July 8, 2024
- Love Day and Ash Wednesday February 14, 2024
- What you and your children are missing out on by not reading pagan myths February 10, 2024
- To Be Enchanted By Story November 11, 2023
- Kay’s Story, Rhyme, & Song Interview. 15 October 2023 October 16, 2023
- Art for Art’s Sake August 6, 2023
- Recent Stuff (Fall classes, Fellowship Retreat and maybe more) August 2, 2023
- Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome) May 25, 2023
- Plans for fall 2023 classes May 25, 2023
- Because Look May 7, 2023
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FREE Sample Classes – Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Come and see what it’s all about! In two one-hour sessions on January 28, 2025, I will be offering sample classes of Story, Rhyme, & Song and Growing in the Literary Tradition. The sessions are scheduled as follows: ■11:00 – … Continue reading
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Scenes from 2023-24 classes
Below are pictures from my two Story, Rhyme, & Song classes, as well as my Growing in the Literary Tradition classes. Last year the GLT class got “the fairy tale class”, which is a primer for reading metaphorically, and in … Continue reading
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Love Day and Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday coming on the 14th of February this year has brought to my mind the connection between the Gospel — humanity’s fall and separation from her Father and her Groom, and then the rescue and reconciliation by that Groom … Continue reading
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What you and your children are missing out on by not reading pagan myths
There are disagreements in the Christian education and parenting world, especially in the homeschool world of which I’ve been a part for two decades, about the exposure to stories of pagan gods and demi-gods and heroes of the various non-Christian … Continue reading
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Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome)
In the past month I have been redesigning and restructuring my blog to facilitate my new ventures since my retirement as a homeschool mom. It’s still a work in progress, particularly with my course descriptions. In case you came here … Continue reading
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Retirement and Goals for my new life
May 14 is my last day as a homeschool teacher. I have been directing my son’s education from birth. We began his official school education when I registered him with an “umbrella school” in Tennessee as K4 in 2007. I … Continue reading
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The Case of the Awesome Sister
Some time after I had started piano lessons at age 7, my mother asked my sister Karen, five years my senior, if she wanted to take lessons. Karen responded, “Why would a lawyer need to know how to play piano?” … Continue reading
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What an Oldest Sister Can Do
Today my oldest of two sisters is 7 decades old. She has ten years on me, and since she married and moved to the other side of the country when she was 19, my childhood memories of her are very … Continue reading
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When I lived in NYC, my friends and I liked to go to a Cuban/Chinese restaurant called La Caridad. It was cheap but very good food, and it had fast service. A long line out the door didn’t deter us; … Continue reading
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