Musings from the Porch

1: Think about appointments that need to be made and make them!

Hair, Nails, Dentist, Doctor, Groomer for Dog

2: Plan a time for yard work to get done.

Put this on the calendar with kids/spouse or schedule with a yard company.

Don't forget the gutters! Living in the South...

Last year at the end of Christmas festivities of 2018, as my family and I drove away from our last event, I broke down in tears. I don't know that I've ever had such a stressful holiday season. And it shouldn't have been.

My kids aren't little. I have a wonderful family...

I can hear...the water trickling through the ice machine...the clock ticking above the basement door...the occasional drip of the rain on the house...and that’s it.  Amazing how loud silence can be.  I should light the gas logs and cozy up with a book on the couch, but...

Eve dove off the back of the boat into the sea.  She came up for air, treading the smooth glassy water, and looked around her.  The sun was just dipping towards the western horizon; a light that hit the sea and spread like molten gold.  The deep purple of night was mov...

Following the internet rabbit hole this morning, which for me usually involves Digg, my blog reader, led me to a quote by someone named Alfie Kohn.  This brought up a conversation I had with Ben and Sam (my 13 and 10 year old boys) last night.  

Here's the quo...

I've been thinking a lot lately about the creative process.  What does it mean to take an idea, a dream, a thought, an image, and bring it to life.  Hopefully, the process is smooth.  Ideally, the process is painless. But that's not always the case.  Our art doesn't al...

This morning I woke up for some reason thinking about the book "A Severe Mercy."  I honestly can't remember what thread of thought led me there.  But it led me to look up stuff about the author, Sheldon Vanauken (who, by the way, converted to Catholicism in 1981), whic...

Well...I guess it's going ok.  

We knew that it would be challenging.  Of course it would be more difficult to have someone else's schedule instead of our own.  There's some flexibility, but not much.  If a kid gets behind it is tough to catch up.

Let me backtr...

Here we are, six weeks into the school year.  

How's it going?  How are YOU doing?

Me...let's see.  The thing about homeschooling is that it's hard.  But...you know what?  So are most things in life.  At least the things that you want to be good, or great.  If you send y...

What do I want to do?  

I want to travel.  

I want to have a home, a stable place to come back to.  I love my house.  There are days, months even, when I love my town.  But I also long to escape it.  

I have traveled.  I have been to other countries; Canada...