When George W. Vanderbilt built the Biltmore home in the late 1800s, he decided to follow the model of English manors and build a village nearby to house the staff of this largest home in America. Vanderbilt hired architect Richard Morris…
When I was in third grade, a new girl moved to town. We became school friends, church friends, and just plain good friends. I made a photo album of my youth a while back. This is Kathy’s page. As little…
Ray, John, and I spent three encouraging days at the NCHE convention. I don’t know when we were ever packed up before 6:00 p.m. after a convention, but that’s what happened Saturday night in Winston-Salem. Ray and I were excited about…
I got a romantic email on Saturday. Though Ray, John, and I were together at the North Carolina convention, Ray still sent me an email, a daily encouragement just for me. He reminded me that exactly forty years before, we…
Last October Ray and I spent two weeks traveling through North Carolina, meeting with homeschoolers across the state. One of the blessings of being at the convention yesterday was getting to see some of them. Our theme last October was…
Ray and I got to our hotel in Winston-Salem last night just in time to check in and head over to the airport to pick up John at 9:00. We filled up the luggage cart with our usual: two garment…
When Ray and I got ready for the day Monday morning, we knew it would be a full day. Sweet Lura, the last Notgrass cousin from Ray’s daddy’s generation, had died last week at 91. Ray and I wanted to…
The Urbana Free Library was a homeschooler’s dream when we lived in Illinois. We found old copies of the beautifully-illustrated D’Aulaire books, back before we had even heard of their popularity with homeschoolers. We read one Lois Lensky book after another,…
As I’ve told you before, I believe homeschooling parents are heroes and heroines. Just because you don’t feel like a heroine doesn’t mean you aren’t one. Heroes and heroines don’t stop and realize that is what they are. They are too…
