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Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Wide Reading for Quarantine, Installment Two

Installment One is here. I noticed that some of my recommendations started falling off of my Facebook page (or wall or whatever it’s called), so I decided to preserve them here sooner rather than later. Before I do that, though, I thought I’d review something I talked about in my newsletter a couple weeks ago: stability. There are a number of times Charlotte Mason implies that wide reading gives us stability. In In Memoriam, for example, she is quoted: The Continue Reading…
May 4, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Wide Reading for Quarantine (7 Book Recommendations)

On my personal Facebook page (not the Afterthoughts page, but rather the page where I’m just with people I know in real life), I started recommending books. It’s an old hobby I decided to ramp up after seeing friends ask each other what to read next. My goal was to use a different category every day of the week. It’s not that I would never repeat a category, but my goal was to never repeat a category within a single Continue Reading…
April 22, 2020
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