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Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Other Thoughts
Little House in the Big Pandemic

In Which I Write You a Letter on Day Twelve of Quarantine Hello, friend — It feels simultaneously redundant, obvious, and deeply necessary to begin this note by saying: what strange times we’re living in. I have A Lot of Thoughts. I’ll spare you most of them, but there is one thing on my mind to tell you about. A few days ago, I was scanning headlines when I saw an article about pregnancy during coronavirus. I am pregnant, as Continue Reading…
April 1, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
The Spring Reading Trackers are Here!

It’s that time again! March is just around the calendar corner and we are armed and ready with brand new spring Mother Culture Habit Tracker and a whole collection of coordinating reading trackers for your students, plus blank habit trackers so you can track a lot more than your reading. Here’s a sampling: Get Your Mother Culture Habit Tracker Now! What are we tracking? Many of you know the drill, but it bears repeating. What exactly are we tracking with Continue Reading…
February 25, 2020
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Home Education
There’s Dew on the Grass in the Morning

“That’s all very well,” cried Montag, “but what are they mad about? Who are these people? Who’s that man and who’s that woman? Are they husband and wife, are they divorced, engaged, what? Good [omitted], nothing’s connected up.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 I ‘m reading a book on ADD that is, I think, helpful, but it’s also made me squirm a lot because the author so often uses computers as an analogy for human minds. What I keep coming Continue Reading…
February 5, 2020
Books & Reading
The 2019 Afterthoughts Book Awards!

That’s right! It’s time for the fifth annual reading wrap-up and awards! This year was my lowest number of books finished in many, many years. I have some good excuses. My top two are (1) that I had to unexpectedly switch gears and plan/preread for/teach twelfth grade, which means that midyear I left about 15 books halfway finished and (2) instead of pushing to finish books I’d started in December, I saved them so they would count for the 2020 Continue Reading…
January 3, 2020