What is Ice?
Jennifer is spacey. Amanda is lazy. Melissa’s a snob. Kelly’s a fake. It is so easy to label people. Labels work for things like spices and what you put in the freezer, but they don’t work so well for people.…
Category Creation
Teach Your Sheep
I recently spent several hours with an old friend. She told me about a child she knows whose mother dropped him off at a friend’s house for a couple of hours and picked him up a week later. She told…
From Sea to Shining Sea
This year Ray and I traveled from sea to shining sea and back again. In May we were at FPEA, the state homeschool convention in Florida; in June at CHEA, the state convention in California. In October we spent two…
Abundant New Year!
Ray and I have seen lots of “free breakfasts” at chain hotels. There was a time when they seemed like a real treat to us and our kids. Since we have started traveling so much for Notgrass Company, they don’t…
Water Pours
Taking a bath in the claw-footed tub in the old house where I grew up and going swimming in Marrowbone Creek are two of my earliest water memories. Water is amazing and so versatile. It nourishes our bodies and cleans…
An Astronaut’s Prayer of Thanksgiving
Several years ago, our good friend Pat Wilhelm gave us a book about Thanksgiving, one of the only books about Thanksgiving for adults that I have ever seen. Thanksgiving: Feast and Festival was compiled by Mildred Corell Luckhardt and was published in…