Posts Tagged ‘Laura Brodie’
15th Anniversary Edition of *The Art of Education* Available July 4th
15th Anniversary Edition of The Art of Education Available July 4th After letting it collect dust on the bookshelf, about a year ago I had cause to re-read a good portion of The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self. This was my first book. In it, I did my best to say everything I wanted to say because, admittedly, I [...]
Winner of April Book Giveaway Is…
...Juliana! Congratulations to Juliana upon having her number chosen by Random.org's "True Random Number Generator." Juliana will receive a copy of Laura Brodie's wonderful new book, Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter's Uncommon Year, compliments of HarperCollins Publishers and Laura Brodie. Many thanks to everyone who [...]
What the Rest of Us Can Learn – in Japanese! – and Other News
The knock on the door was, unmistakably, that of the UPS driver. “You expecting something?” I asked Sailordude. “Nope; you?” “Nope.” And he went to see what might lie outside the door. It was a delivery I wouldn’t have guessed in a million years, a complete surprise. I ripped open the heavy mailer to find not one, but [...]
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) A BIT OF ADDITIONAL WISDOM THIS MORNING... Don't forget to register for the April [...]
PARENT AT THE HELM’S April Book Giveaway!
The lucky winner of April’s giveaway will receive a copy of Laura Brodie’s beautiful new book, Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter’s Uncommon Year. This hardcover book, valued at $25.99, is, as Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls wrote, “…funny, heart cracking, and [...]
