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March 2017

March 18, 2017

Notes on Weakness and Failure

There was a brilliant rosy sunrise, which I saw because, you know, the daylight has...

March 10, 2017

7 Living Inside the Box Takes

Kelly's Takes today are about what is working in her homeschool. I might as well...

November 2016

November 05, 2016

Autumn Notes on Home and Daylight Savings

I have got to plant out some bulbs today, even though it's probably late. I've...

October 2016

October 22, 2016

Autumnal Notes

For a while now that I've looked out my bedroom window it's been what I...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Notes from the Road: There Is No Bucket List

Matt's been sending me pictures of the garden. So amazing how it just rises up...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Don’t Add the Broccoli Too Early

Before I really get going, here is the audio of my talk, which, I found,...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

Advent: A Contrarian Celebration

Thanksgiving is a seminal moment in the church year, not for liturgical reasons so much,...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Seven Learning Takes

I am up against my first quarter mark and thought I'd document for myself, more...

October 09, 2015

7 Catch Up Takes

One Looks like seven quick takes is seven years old this month. The Internet must...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

The Autumn Return

I happened to look at the calendar yesterday and discovered that we've been toiling away...

September 22, 2015

The Accidental Homeschool

Every morning, round about the time that I begin to type little nothings like this,...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Monday Morning Haze

Which it really is, a hot, hazy, cloud laden morning. Can't tell you how delighted...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Look, I didn’t really blog

Survived Shepherd's Bowl, thanks to amazing and most unexpected help. Soup turned out ok, even...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Part Two: Will it be ok?

Let me begin by saying that it's completely ridiculous for me to presume to write...

February 24, 2015

An Average Day

Every morning the little girls climb into my bed and ask me if its a...

February 14, 2015

Learning Notes?: February 9-14

The question mark is on purpose. Do I even have anything to say about this...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

Learning Notes: January 26-30

Meant all week to keep carefullish notes but was interrupted every time I sat down...

January 22, 2015

Marriage: Try to be a Nicer Person

A great sorrow for Matt, when we first got married, was discovering the shifts and...

January 17, 2015

Learning Notes January 12-17

Didn't keep proper notes this week. Struggled to keep on track as one child and...

January 10, 2015

Learning Notes: January 5-9

Scenes of the Week Did get back into school this week as planned. It's always...

December 2014

December 14, 2014

Learning Notes: December and long ago End of November

It's been understandably hard to carry on with school these last few weeks. The gray...

November 2014

November 08, 2014

Learning Notes

Who knows what the date is. It's November, right? We did a whole week of...

October 2014

October 25, 2014

Learning Notes: 10/20-10/24

Rambling The last two weeks remain kind of a jumble in my mind. I meant...

October 11, 2014

Learning Notes

9/29-10/3 Gone to Texas. Children did school with K who also fed, bathed and corralled...

September 2014

September 20, 2014

Learning Notes. 9/15-9/19

Monday Went to the doctor. Probably am having allergies, bad ones, for the first time...

September 13, 2014

Week Two Learning Notes

Notes 9/8-9/12MondayRose from my by bed twice. Once to take a shower and then, much...

September 08, 2014

Week One Learning Notes

Wrote these notes slowly through the last week and intended to post them up on...