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.

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 …

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Random Sunday Musings

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“[E]verything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ~ Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning Happy Sunday, everyone! I woke up to an unexpected inner calm this morning. Is it because I was …

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Creative Altruism

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. We had a beautiful falling of lake effect snow in Milwaukee yesterday. Well, it was much more beautiful coming down than it looked from the pre-dawn window this morning …

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