Our Curriculum 2018
A Peek at our curriculum circa 2018. [...]
Relax and Rest
June 13, 2018 Relax and Rest Sometimes I just feel overwhelmed with thoughts. I feel like my mind is going to blow a fuse (or already has blown through a few and I’m on the last one, staring at an empty box and praying this one holds). I’ve taught myself [...]
Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]
Creating Characters: Web of Deception
February 11, 2018 Creating Characters: Web of Deception The first of my epic fantasy novels to be published, Web of Deception, has some of my favorite characters. It took over seven years of development and several revisions to complete this work. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I never [...]
Meet Chloe
Meet a bold girl with a wild spirit: Chloe in Web of Deception Child of Miny'lyra [...]
Meet Corgi Dawflawn
Sometimes decisions that appear minuscule actually end up leading to the biggest adventures! [...]
Lost in Translation: replenish
August 20, 2017 Lost in Translation: replenish I like translating old English into what I call “literal today-English” because 15th century England in which “old English” belonged was like another world. Many words have changed meanings in small or big ways in 500 years! It is really another language. Consider [...]
Question For Inspiration
Why do you say "curiosity killed the cat?" [...]
A Princess for Jaquline
May 26, 2017 A Princess Story For Jaquline Jaquline loves to read. As a toddler she loved snuggling with me and reading “a princess story” (what she called any story with a girl in it). Her favorites were “A Little Princess,” “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” “The Lion, the Witch, [...]