I love Beatrix Potter’s art because it is creative and fun, because she illustrated the beautiful English Lake District, and because it reminds me of a homeschool project I did with our daughters many years ago. The three of us…
While listening to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey the other day, I came upon an amusing and insightful passage about topics to which homeschooling mamas like you can relate. The passage is a conversation between the book’s heroine, Catherine Morland, her…
One of our grandsons is a sweet four-year-old. To respect the privacy of our grandchildren, I’ll call him Mason. When I read to Mason and his three siblings, ranging from age two to nine, interruptions are common. When Mason gets…
When my friend Joyce was the wife and mother in a missionary family in Cameroon, she knew women who could not read. Joyce and I became friends in Oxford, Mississippi, where her husband served as our church’s preacher and my…
