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More than surviving
This month’s editorial will be a pep talk to myself—feel free to eavesdrop. I am about to start my 13th year of homeschooling (19th year if you say homeschooling begins at birth) and am doing all the usual things. Collecting books, writing out curriculum plans, making lists of what I still need to find in the way of outside classes, designing weekly
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Providential collisions
As we end one year (some of us are still trying to finish a book or two!) and plan to start the next, I find it helpful to remind myself of the truth of God’s sovereignty in the affairs of men. Recently a son through some foolishness broke his ankle. The accident took place the day before he was to
New face of friendship
In March I attended the lovely wedding of a friend and saw many familiar faces. Some were those of friends who go way back with me, those folks who started homeschooling about the same time. We had babies together, went on playdates, had tea parties (not the political kind!) and saw each other on a
Homeschooling entropy
By Jeannette Tulis Political and legislative events of late are more than just a little discouraging. I was in Nashville watching my eldest son as a witness at the state mock trial competition during the fateful days before “the bill” passed. I had the opportunity to stay with my sister in her lovely
Making, breaking those binding ties
By Jeannette Tulis Forgive me if I get a little maudlin in the next few months. My oldest is graduating in May, Lord willing, and it is just hitting me that she will be leaving. It is a double blow for me as she is also my only daughter and my best friend. She and I often hide out from her three brothers.
Cultural collisions
The other day I was in one of the library branches. I was being assisted by a staff member while I used a PC in a bank of computers to log on to the new audio book system available for downloads from the website. Next to me were seated two children, a boy maybe 10 and a girl maybe 8. They were viewing
Forces for good or evil
Earlier this month I dropped everything I was doing to take an 8-day road trip with our eldest child to visit an art school she had her eye on for next year. The school was in Connecticut so, not wanting to drive all the way up there for a visit to just one place, I laid out a route that would include
Embracing sovereignty
This space has become a place where I muse on what God is teaching me. If it seems as though I repeat myself (as suggested by our editor!), it is because I am a slow learner. I do hear kind words from some of you that what has been written encourages you, and that is my prayer. Even if I am not learning
Our homeschool mission
Some time at the beginning of the past school year I recieved an e-mail from a witty friend of mine that ended with the words, “Hope your time is fruitful and wonderful as you dare to go where few will go … BACK TO SCHOOL WITH YOUR KIDS!” I chuckled, somewhat ruefully, when I read that as I
Long view of the kingdom
This year for the first time I attended the homeschool graduation exercises. I have gone to the banquet in years past but somehow never attended the actual commencement. I was not prepared for what I saw when I walked into the sanctuary at Central Baptist church. It was a sea of families about 2,000