Every year I gather ideas for non-electronic gifts during the holiday season. Those lists are always available through the tab at the top of the blog if now seems like a good time to revisit them. Today I’m posting a …
Tag: home schooling
the kids will be fine…encouragement for parents with kids home from school
A calming hello to all of you, especially those with children schooling at home for the first time. I hope this finds your households well and at least moderately sane! Today I want to offer some words of encouragement as …
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encouragement for a new day and a new way
A warm hello to all of you around the world, figuring out how to make life work for you and the little ones in your sphere in this rapidly-changing landscape. Are you feeling a bit like you got caught in …
when learning and life are one lovely jumble
This is My Home, This is My School, written and illustrated by Jonathan Bean published in 2015 by Farrar Straus Giroux Okay. This is a book I’ve been waiting for. Jonathan Bean has delivered an authentic, marvelously-chaotic, loving glimpse of …
fiction favorites…Surviving the Applewhites…and its sequel
Surviving the Applewhites, by Stephanie S. Tolan E.D.’s Aunt Lucille was a poet and had been conducting a workshop at Traybridge Middle School when Jake was kicked out. This whole terrible idea had been hers. She’d told Mr. Dugan about …
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