When I share my Charlotte Mason 101 talk with groups, I state the following: “In 2014, I was blessed to…
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The Borrowing Days of March
Yesterday, my 15-year-old daughter and her friends wanted to, needed to, just get outside in the slightly warmer weather!…
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A Sense of Place – Baraboo, WI by Heather Suemnicht (Guest Post)
I have the pleasure of sharing a guest post from a friend, Heather Suemnicht. I first met Heather years ago…
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Nature Notebook 10-Year Retrospective
These photos represent a sampling of my 14-year old’s nature notebook drawings. She was four when…
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State of Wonder: 2015 Homewoods Gathering
She (wisdom) is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that…
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Made Happy By Simple Things
Dicentra spectabilis A sure sign of spring around here is when the airy bushes of bleeding hearts appear. I have…
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Fairy Rings
“Where science does not teach a child to wonder and admire it has perhaps no educative value.” –…
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First Day of Spring is March 20th!
From The Friendly Year by Henry Van Dyke Isn’t that the truth? We were able to enter “saw our first…
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Wheeling Worlds of the Winter Firmament
Every child in such a class is open to the wonders that science reveals, is interested in the wheeling worlds…
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St. Luke’s Little Summer
“Since the gale the weather has turned soft and warm. Mr Willet tells me it is Saint Luke’s little summer,…
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Seeing and Storing
It would be difficult to overrate this habit of seeing and storing as a means of after-solace and refreshment….
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Edith Blackwell Holden (b. September 26, 1871)
From The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady For those looking for inspiration of the highest level in the realm…
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