I spent Saturday afternoon in the basement of a tiny country church in eastern Kentucky, surrounded by people with noses and pinky toes just like…
Free range learning
My mom used to call us ‘free range kids,’ like free range chickens… We roamed the countryside. —William Moseley I think we skipped from March…
Blueberry Dreams
Just up the road from us, a farm that has been a community stand-by is shutting down. By fall, instead of growing apples, peaches, blackberries,…
Homeschool Organizing That {really} Saves You Time
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Waking Up
Green Acres is the place to be. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide Keep Manhattan, just give…
The Missing in Missions
A few minutes of WiFi recently was enough. It meant that for the first time in more than a week, I’d set my eyes on…
May Day
Jude turned three yesterday. His birthday is May Day, a holiday without much traction here in the States, but huge elsewhere in the world for…
4 Tricks to Fit in ALL the Books in EVERY Year of Sonlight
In my house, everyone crowds around on Box Day. We all wait anxiously for the flaps to be opened, then peer in for a second…
The stick of doom
Today I met my current arch nemesis. Laugh all you want, because it was a little blue Honda. I’m a good enough driver at this…
Straddle Parenting in real time
Experienced moms of many told me there would be a tipping point, a moment somewhere along the way where the tide would turn and I…