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Sunday Salon: More Fascinating Stuff

Posted by Sherry on 8/15/2010 in Christian Life, Education and Homeschool, English Language, General, History

1. I told you I’m a C.S. Lewis fanatic. And I could always use some writing tips. Thanks to Jessica at Homemaking Through the Church Year for the link to 8 Writing Tips from C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote this advice on writing in answer to a letter from an American schoolgirl, so it ought to [...]

 
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Difficult Books

Posted by Sherry on 6/29/2010 in Education and Homeschool, General

An article by Alistair Harper in The Guardian‘s book blog asks: “Do you avoid difficult reads, or seek them out? Which tomes are worth the pain, and which are best left on the shelf?” I would answer that David Copperfield, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Moby Dick, Le Morte D’Arthur, [...]

 
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Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard

Posted by Sherry on 6/22/2010 in Education and Homeschool, General, Nonfiction

Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream by Adam Shepard. I’m going to buy a copy of this book for a young man I know, who in addition to making what I consider very foolish decisions about his spiritual life, is also stuck in a dead end job and not at [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: 52 Things That Fascinate Me

Posted by Sherry on 6/20/2010 in 2010 Projects, Community, Education and Homeschool, English Language, General, Sunday Salon

Colleen at Chasing Ray wrote this post about the the places, people, and ideas that fascinate her and infuse her writing. She got the idea, in turn, from this post on writing by author Kelly Link. What I decided to do was to sit down and, very quickly, make a list of things that I [...]

 
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More Cures for a Slow Summer

Posted by Sherry on 6/4/2010 in 2010 Projects, Blogamundi (Links), Booklists, Education and Homeschool, General

My posts about things to do for those who need a cure for summer boredom continue to be quite popular and bring lots of hits to this blog. You can look at some of these ideas in the following posts: June: Celebrations, Links, and Birthdays Bored –Nothing to Do: 100 Ideas to Cure Boredom 100 [...]

 
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Summer Plans

Posted by Sherry on 6/1/2010 in Education and Homeschool, Family, General

A friend of mine posted this message on her Facebook: So, am I the only one who starts EVERY summer with big plans that seem to disappear into thin air? This year I am dreaming of sorting and organizing so that I will have a stress free and wonderous school year, funny thing, I had [...]

 
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Idealistic Eighteen Year Old in Need of a Challenge

Posted by Sherry on 5/6/2010 in Community, Education and Homeschool, Family, General

So Drama Daughter, age eighteen, is not going away to college this fall as she had planned. You can read about her journey and dilemma here if you’re interested. Since her life has changed to unknown Plan B, she’s a little (LOT) unsure what to do with herself this summer and this fall. She has [...]

 
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Boarding School Books

Posted by Sherry on 2/19/2010 in Booklists, Education and Homeschool, General, Young Adult Fiction

25 Best Boarding School books by Sara Ebner at The London Times. This list is very British, as might be expected given the source, although Ms. Ebner does include the Americans, Catcher in the Rye and Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. I’ve read neither of the American selections, nor have I read many of the other [...]

 
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President’s Day for Kids

Posted by Sherry on 2/12/2010 in --February, 2010 Projects, Birthdays, Booklists, Education and Homeschool, General, Nonfiction, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Monday, February 15th is Presidents’ Day, so I thought I’d re-run this list with a few additions. Have a happy holiday! Leetla Giorgio Washeenton by Thomas Augustine Daly. More Washington Poetry. O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman. White House site with mini-biographies of all 44 U.S. Presidents. More information on the Presidents for President’s [...]

 
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School UNFriendly

Posted by Sherry on 2/9/2010 in 2009, Children's Fiction, Education and Homeschool, General

Maybe it’s my own personal homeschool bias, but a lot of the books I read for the Cybils (Middle Grade Fiction), didn’t feel very school-friendly. I’ve already discussed the confusing mixed messages from and about school in Barbara Dee’s Solving Zoe, and how the protagonist, Zoe, learns and thrives much better outside of school than [...]

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