The highway stretches before us. We’re ten minutes into the hours-long car ride, but already, our four kids clamor for a movie. My husband and I glance at each other, […]
That Joyful “No”: Stories of Resisting Temptation
I was eight or nine, sitting at a beige plastic desk, a copy of the MCAS (the Massachusetts standardized test for elementary schoolers) test book on my right and an […]
Pack Horse Librarians Deliver Hope
Why do kids in western North Carolina need books when they don’t have drinkable water? It was hard not to wonder this after the historic flooding from Helene had dumped […]
Just the Right Time
As a home educator, I have one of those closets in my house. You know the one I mean. It’s the closet that won’t shut and is the black hole […]
On the Threshold of Bag End
I stand on the threshold of Bag End and peer inside. There’s an armchair by the hearth and a kettle that’s “just beginning to sing”. There’s magic here, and friendship, […]