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My Year of Reading 2018 – The Year I Blogged a Little. I didn’t blog much in 2018. The end of 2018 was during the first half of my daughter’s senior year so we were visiting schools and stressing … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2018)
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‘Tis the season for Book Lists and Book Challenges! At the beginning of 2020, I looked wistfully at several book challenges. I had about three I was considering and was pondering which “book in translation” to read when the Spirit … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2017)
March started off with the inaugural gathering of the Hampton Roads Charlotte Mason Reading Group on March 1st. Charlotte Mason was a brilliant British educator who established a unique philosophy of education. Her writings and method provide a blueprint for … Continue reading Savoring March
February this year brought nary a vision of dancing hearts in hues of rhodamine, rubine, or red, nor a vase of over-priced, under-scented, long-stem, short-lived roses with drooping heads; no Belgian chocolate unfairly traded or Hallmark cards with verse over-rated, … Continue reading Savoring February
I started writing December Snapshots during the month of December, hoping to write closer to life, instead of my usual practice of looking back via my camera phone pictures and my datebook. On the one hand, I like going back … Continue reading December Snapshots
October is my favorite month. The southern coastal humidity dries up and the air is crisper, the night skies are clearer, the acorns are dropping, and the sycamore leaves continue to drift down, yet the flowers are still blooming, and … Continue reading October Snapshots
