Part One: A Training Ground for the Young In the Dresden Files short story collection Brief Cases there is a short story titled “Zoo Day” in which Harry takes his daughter Maggie to the zoo. The story is divided into three parts, the first narrated...
Monday August 6 Everyone did math and copywork. Anthony read from Child’s History. Ben also read a Bob book and did Explode the Code. Bella did some work in her timeline book. Lucy read part of a Bob book with me. Took Anthony to the doctor in the...
Monday July 30 Anthony: math, copywork, Child’s History. Also, discussion about his copywork (All the world’s a stage speech from As You Like It.) Ben: math, copywork, Bob book, Explode the Code. Sophie: math, copywork, dictation. Bella: math...
Years ago I began an over-ambitious attempt at a blog series on The Waste Land (you can see the link in the menu at the top of the page), but then I was pregnant and quickly ran out of steam. I abandoned the series when I got to a sticky place and I...
Catching up on a backlog of learning notes posts… Monday July 23 Recovery day. Anthony had a dr appt. We also went to the store to get something for dinner. Tuesday July 24 Anthony and I woke up in the middle of the night vomiting. Called it a...
The Witch’s Brat by Rosemary Sutcliff This is one of those books whose title will put off some readers before they even open the book or find out what it’s about. The story actually has almost nothing at all to do with witches and much more to do...
I’ve been reading Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. It begins in ancient China, documenting how this mineral, which is necessary to human life, also became one of the first forms of currency and one of the first economic commodities...
To the person who asked me how I “handle the racism and derogatory imagery of natives & savages” in the Swallows and Amazons series with my children. First, as to the word “savages”, I first define it and give its etymology, like I...
Thursday July 20 Dom wasn’t feeling well at bedtime and was feeling worse by morning. He assumed maybe it was food poisoning from some bad lunch meat. I took over breakfast and clean up. After breakfast we headed straight to the Park Loop Road...
Monday July 17 We got up early and finished the last frantic packing. Which was very last minute on my part. I’m not sure why the procrastinating bug had hit me quite so hard, but I had done hardly anything and so it was rather a scramble. But...
