I don’t often write about specific curriculum here, mostly because I believe children and parents can thrive together in learning at home regardless of the...

Every Friday evening, our family shares communion together during our Sabbath meal. I love the concreteness of communion, the plainness of the metaphor. God found in...

On the first day of this year, I woke up long before the sunrise, seized with anxiety. The same thoughts were spinning circles through me...

Weekends are always the best time for personal reading. On Saturdays, I tend to stay in my PJs longer and often meander back into my bed with...

We moved into our cozy 1920s home two years ago this month, although it hardly feels two years of work have passed. When we purchased the property,...

“Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?” ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See __________________________...

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. ― John...

Although I’ve mentioned literary influences in the kitchen a few times in this space, I’ve been most influenced by my younger [and more talented] sister,...

My mother has frequently told me, “We will often do for our children that which we won’t do for ourselves. Sometimes that’s how we learn.” I’ve...

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they...