Home Schooling and Community Service

I am the daughter of a home health nurse who worked in one of the poorest counties in our state. Whenever my brother and I were out of school (either we students had a holiday, it was the weekend or summer break) we had to go with Mom to visit her patients. I have vivid memories of knocking on dilapidated doors and evading...

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Heigh-HO! Mining Treasures in 2010

The trees and ornaments are all securely packed away. Wrapping paper, ribbons and bows, returned to their bins and closets, are slumbering until next winter when they’ll reemerge for the next all-night wrapping party. The festive china is stacked neatly in the cabinet and will go unused until the weekend after...

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The Missing Ingredient

My first two children spoiled me rotten. Their happy attitudes toward our home school adventure fed my home-school-mom pride. They gobbled up nearly everything I placed on their educational plates. I thought that whatever I decided to do would work the same way for all of my children. That is, until my third child turned...

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