my new homeschool planner: one of my favourite things

“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Homeschooling daytimers purchasedĀ online, these are a few of my favourite things…” Can’t you just see Julie Andrews singing that on a Swiss mountain top? She was a homeschooler herself, an unschooler even! Because I enjoy writing, pen in hand, I decided…

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Food for Creative Thought: Twain Austen

I chose my ‘name’ intentionally. Well, not my given name. That was given to me. I wasn’t named after Mother Teresa, but I like to refer to her when I’m introducing myself. I, a home educating mother of four, a Mother, named Teresa…I always qualify, “just not so saintly”. And I’m not amusing myself —…

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finding a writing voice

“I thought of my own writing career. In my early years I’d written some good poems, even won a fellowship, and had a poetry book published. I wrote about the obvious things: being a Jew, my marriage to a non-Jew, the Holocaust, and my grandparents. But I realized…it was when Zen crossed my life that…

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