To Know More or Not

I am the mother of a child who knows more than I do. My father tells me that all seventeen year old kids know more than their parents, and I suppose he is right. My 21 year old would laugh and tell me that he knows more than I do, and that he always has [...]

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It’s 9:30 at night

I come home from work with all these grand ideas about what I am going to accomplish in the evening – and it never, ever happens. I’m always tired. Tonight, I was achey on top of being tired (I don’t mean physically tired: emotionally and psychologically tired) (I was physically achey). So nothing got done, [...]

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homeschooling

I was talking to a good friend earlier today who inquired as to how Chrystal is handling being homeschooled. This friend is a couple years younger than I am, and to all intents and purposes, a bit of a hippie: until it comes to some of the off-the-wall things I believe in, like midwives, breastfeeding [...]

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homeschooling and opinionated horses

Since the sun (and its subsequent warmth) has taken leave of us, abandoning us to the coastal onshore flow typical of a bad Rose Festival season (or is that a ‘typical’ Rose Fesitval?), I must digress from my garden to something else. My garden is in a holding pattern, waiting for warm and real sun.
We [...]

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swearing

I’ve been thinking about this for a few days. I believe I should come clean: I homeschooled my children because I wanted them to have the best education possible, and it wasn’t possible through the public education district we were in. Besides, the school board categorically did not want my input, so I thought something [...]

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