First Grade is a very gentle year around here. While it might not seem gentle by the intimidating schedule I posted earlier in the week, it is gentle in the sense that it is slow, lovely, rich, and short-winded. I will explain more on this in a later post. For today, I’d like to […]
Land of the Living
The night finds me distracted by library books and headlines about Weapons of Mass Destruction and the little boy making a bed on my living room floor. ISIS advances and Ebola sweeps, but today my grandfather said vows in his twilight years and married the woman he loves. FaceTime carried to their great-grandfather the congratulations of my children. I […]
Saving The World On A Saturday Night
You know that scene in “The Incredibles” where the ice dude shouts out “Honey, where’s my super suit?”– yeah. Welcome to the life of an EOD family. There’s my husband, happily lounging in his sweats and a hoodie, when a call comes in. Somebody somewhere has something that may or may not blow up and […]
How We Do: Weekly School Schedules with Ambleside Online (part 1)
I am frequently asked about how we schedule our homeschool week, how we organize to make sure we get all the things done. I’m going to take the next few posts to break this down, beginning today with examples of our weekly paper schedules. In our house we call these schedules: “charts.” I apologize for the poor […]
Abide In Christ
As we enter a new week, may we lay down our distractions, our worries, our burdens, our fears; may we cease chattering; may fidgeting flee. May we have the strength to meet with quiet hearts our challenges, our joys, our griefs, our tests; may our moments of wonder, moments of pain and all the plodding mundanities be well […]
When The Husband Leaves
When the husband leaves I think, “this means a whole night of writing!” and immediately begin forming blog posts in my head. But that’s when I’m shaping meat into patties. By the time I’m putting a lid on the salad, I’m onto a third blog post, which will meet a timely and catchy conclusion as the last […]
Perform
There was a huge barrier to writing–and see, here I am writing about writing again, despite my noblest of intentions–that had its roots in a pressure to perform. One could say the same for living, for being. The pressure to perform draped my existence much the way a wet wool sweater might: heavy, weighing down. […]
The Writer Writing
“As I write these words, dust drifts across the floor. Stacks of urgent mail grow tall. The dollhouse curtains stay unmade. Laundry ripens. I need you to understand that I write because poems do not break. They do not follow a clock. Like us, they breathe the air of hamburgers frying, but it is air […]
The Writer Pausing
No writing tonight. I’m busy talking across time zones with a friend. {{Happy Sigh}} (Day 8 of the Writing Challenge: where I’m “Just Writing” daily for 31 days.)
The Writer Climbing
We hiked our favorite trail today before the sun arched high in the sky, and I remembered a hike we’d taken when Eddie was still an infant. It had felt like such a milestone then, to be out there on my own with five children. Now there are six, and somehow six seems easier than five. Today I had […]
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