What Story Do You Want to Be Able to Tell?

What Story Do You Want to be Able to Tell

If I learned anything at all from twenty-one years of homeschooling it is this:  the daunting, two-inch-thick school book is managed in daily assignments, one lesson at a time over the course of an entire school year. If we persevere, we will be able to say in June, “We did it!” Thirty summers and thirty… Continue reading What Story Do You Want to Be Able to Tell?

Are You Looking for a Good Reason to Keep on Being?

Are You Looking for a Good Reason to Keep on Being?

Four hundred years ago, Shakespeare penned a speech for Macbeth, a character who needed a moment on stage to lament the meaningless, pointless nature of his own life: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to… Continue reading Are You Looking for a Good Reason to Keep on Being?