I wrote this five years ago, when Anne-with-an-e was in college, and Betsy was on the brink of graduating high school. Now? Anne-with-an-e a...

Way back when Anne-with-an-e was a sophomore in high school and Betsy was in 8th grade, we started a weekly writing group with two of th...

Ramona, when she was three.  (I originally posted this three years ago): I have a confession: I don't read much about homesch...

Whither has October fled?  It's gone missing and I'm left wondering if one of my favorite months met all her obligations before she ...

I watched this TED talk awhile back, and then a friend of mine recently reminded me of it and I watched it again. I love this guy because he...

Tamara asked: ... did you ever have a child who *wanted* to do things like pre-reading worksheets? And if so, did you just let that be ...

When I recently spoke at a homeschooling conference , I wanted to be sure I had enough to say, so of course I over-prepared. There was a sec...

The month of May is a blur. This is May, speeding past me: Sometime in May, we celebrated the end of school for this year, though when...

No, it's not the kind of exit interview that means I'm leaving the job. It's more accurately an "end of year survey...

Because Ramona and I will never be too old for picture books, and because we are all about the Revolutionary war this year, we recently read...

Now that I have a daughter in college and a high school senior who has taken classes,  I've seen some of the fruits of our relaxed homes...

Cathy Duffy  (whom I think of as more of a legend than an actual, breathing human being, and I mean that entirely as a compliment) recent...

... she was hunting down Billy Collins  (not in a stalker-ish way -- that's my beat -- but in an, "I have to find 'Snow'!...

Danielle Bean sums up so much so well. I have a confession: I don't read that much about homeschooling anymore. Not because there ar...

We were out of town this weekend for a graduation party (hey, Host and Hostess, you know who you are: Great party! Great food! Great daughte...

Fun stuff for word nerds! This link shows 22 maps , put together by PhD student Joshua Katz . The maps illustrate just how we Americans ar...

Anne-with-an-e was studying for a zoology test. Ramona had been on my laptop, watching a science video. I can't remember what Betsy...

Recently (oh, was that really back  on August 21st ?) I mentioned that we'd be getting back to school after Labor Day. We did indeed sta...

Yesterday my eldest daughter headed off to college classes. She's attending school here in our town, so it's not the seismic shi...

We've started putting together her anatomy project (kind of hard to see, but here it is): She made the heart with fun foam. The intes...