Prior to homeschooling my progenies, my only experience with John Bunyan’s classic, Pilgrim’s Progress, was a tedious youth group experience…
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Of Memes and Things
Here is part of the sisters’ nature table which greets visitors at the side door. So, my friend from New…
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Singing is to the Song Thrush as Narration is to the Child
Now this art of telling back is Education and is very enriching. (Mason, 1925/1989, p. 292) My frazzled friend wrote…
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Telling the Bees by a Fighting Quaker – Plus a Book Recommendation!
We are reading the nostalgic, descriptive poetry of the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier this term. Greenleaf (which is what…
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Community, not Co-op (Enquire Within Books)
Our Charlotte Mason community – Truth, Beauty, Goodness – had its first meeting of the new school year. Notice I…
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The Rule of Every Homeschool
Cheney running on the prairie at Blue Mounds State park This post is peppered with pictures from some travels around…
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Avoid the Grooves – Shift That Paradigm
hydrangeas and phlox *This post reflects some of the highlights of an encouragement talk that I just gave to a…
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A Favorite C.S. Lewis Book
Cheney having a summer read. She still fits on the sill. Looking for a short, interesting and inspiring summer read? …
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“Degrees of Separation” or “Your Child’s Future Sanity”
So I asked the group of adults sitting around the table, “What odors or sensations evoke strong, positive memories from…
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21 Lattes Later
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Please…
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The Art of Mindfulness
MINDFULNESS, n. Attention; regard; heedfulness. -Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary We began the LER talking about how mindful Miss Mason…
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Well-Timed Retreat
A period of group withdrawal for prayer, meditation, study, or instruction under a director. But Wisdom’s triumph is a well-tim’d…
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