Flash Narrative: A Nice, Bright Day
What last week’s dust storm lacked in darkness, it made up for in damage. The wind wrecked the shed and the west foundation of the coop, tore shingles off the house, and broke a storm-window.
Lisa Rivero
On Becoming Great
I used to think I wanted to be the next Willa Cather. Thank you to my friend Karl Bunday, creator of Learn in Freedom!, for this Facebook share.
Writing Motherhood
On this sunny Mother’s Day I want to share a couple of blog posts about motherhood that touched me today. Casey (Raising Smart Girls) writes poignantly of seeing herself in her daughter: “She, like me, wears all her emotions on her sleeve. Great love, great disappointment, great anguish, great sadness, great anger, sometimes cycling through …
In Oshkosh, b’gosh!
I’m happy to be spending the weekend in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, at the Wisconsin Parents Association’s 28th Annual Home Education Conference. A new workshop I’ve been getting ready to present this year is DIY Blogs, and I plan to show this post at the workshop as a way to begin (and as a way to bring …
Has a book changed the way you live?
I’m eager to read the new book A Jane Austen Education, by William Deresiewicz (see videos at the end of this post for more information), in part because my husband, who re-reads all of Austen’s novels every time he teaches them—and has read Pride and Prejudice roughly two dozen times—delivers a killer Jane Austen course. …