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Knocking the Dust Off
About 12 years ago, my friend Anna gave me a set of watercolor paints and told me to give it a shot. I had only touched paints a few times in high school art classes. After a sufficient number of bad watercolor paintings, it started to make sense. I learned how the colors dried with…
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Food is Not Virtue, Food is Not Vice : Lessons from an Honest Potato
Did you know that if you put a potato in the ground at the right time of year, you can return to that ground sometime later and find it full of potatoes? The ground becomes like a dough in which a small bit of levain was hidden and a miraculous multiplication occurs. The potatoes don’t…
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The Struggle That Led Us Home
The day I sat in a meeting with the assistant principal of my son’s elementary school as she presented me with data pertaining to his mandatory third grade retention, was the day I accepted my fate as a homeschool mom. Her charts, test scores, spreadsheets and concerned facial expressions gently expounded upon his inadequacies. It…