The next section of the lesson “Homeschooling in the Nineties” illustrates a point from the first section. That point is this: parents teaching their own children has been the normal way for most people for most of world history. For…
As I continue to work toward completion of my update of America the Beautiful (I’m getting close! Do you hear my loud sigh of joy and relief all the way at your house?), I spent some time this weekend on…
My friend (I’ll call her Lisa) homeschooled her oldest two children and is still homeschooling her third. We met Lisa and her husband (I’ll call him Jeffrey) before they had children.  They eventually had three. I’ll call them Austin, Kevin,…
When we first moved to Illinois in 1985, we met Grace Doré, the oldest member of our church. She was in her 90s then, so she had been born in the latter part of the 19th century. In her youth,…
Let me start out by saying that this post is not to make you feel guilty or inadequate. You know me better than that. It is simply to give a little nudge of encouragement, one that will be a blessing…
Do you ever head into the kitchen to get something out of the freezer for tomorrow night’s dinner and stop off at the laundry room to put a load in the washer and notice that the dryer has stopped and…
