The day I quit homeschooling didn’t feel particularly dramatic. Still, relief poured over me as I called the little Montessori-inspired school and asked about enrolling my son after Christmas. Because I was NOT cut out to homeschool. I had given it an honest try. I had put my whole heart and soul into it, and…
Once upon a time, there was a mama who was just a little freaked out to teach math. She was afraid of passing on her own math anxiety to her kids, so she alternately adopted the Sudbury Model (they can learn all the math they need for life in 6 weeks!) and had panic attacks…
This idea came to me in a place with no space – the front seat of my car. We have a Volvo that sat 6 in 1995, but I’m not sure the way-back seats are legal anymore, so we’ll say it fits 5 uncomfortably. My son rides up front with me, and about 40 percent…
When I was in high school, I decided that I needed to like coffee. My friends had started liking coffee. A few even worked at coffee shops before Starbucks came to our town, and so they would make me coffee drinks with syrups and whipped cream, and I would try to enjoy them. But coffee…