It’s been a rocky start, but I’ve finally had some time to update this new blog! Blogger, where I blogged for years, has become a relatively (maybe seriously) outdated platform, so it was time to move. I hope to find time to write and share my thoughts on many things here – I have more […]
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Social media has captured the hearts and minds of mamas, especially when it comes to nature study. Who doesn’t want to have friend groups frolicking in the outdoors with children exploring, learning together while mamas talk and share their days together? It really is a lovely and idealistic image that has trended big time, particularly
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Sisyphus by Titian, 1549 A couple of years ago I heard Dick Keyes speak at a CMI conference I spoke at out here in California. He had two wonderful talks, one on imagination and one on heroes. At the end of one of his talks, he touched on the topic of Christian Tribalism – a
We’ve created a new FB group SocalCM for any “CMers” who live in Southern California. There are many things particular to us – like the Burgess books aren’t talking about our birds! So we created this space to connect and contemplate together about many and sundry such things. Before you hop over to join the
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I came back tonight to take a peek at my sorely neglected blog and I found this old page sitting unpublished with the title “Mind to Mind.” We’re calling it “keeping” and “commonplace” these days (wow that makes me sound old!) but I thought I’d share it with you now. Here’s what Charlotte Mason said
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My 10th grade daughter entered into Gothic reads this year with Jeckyl and Hyde and Frankenstein, followed by The Deadliest Monster which I have on order as I write this. I decided to read the the first two, the former because it is so talked about – Tim Keller references it in his book Reason For
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Did you know that after Charlotte Mason’s death in 1923 there was a tribute written by her students and colleagues? In Memoriam. Brandy at Afterthoughts has just made it available to us all in book form with a beautiful cover by local CM mom/artist/graphic designer, Alissa Clark. She also designed the beautiful new AmblesideOnline logo some
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A couple years ago we were hiking up by Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary and learned about Flores Peak (pictured above) where the bandit, Juan Flores, wanted for the murder of LA Sheriff James Barton made his daring escape by leaping over its precipice in 1857. After some digging around I found a book by Hubert H. Bancroft titled, Popular Tribunals
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What is Classical Education? Is Charlotte Mason Classical? We’re all wondering the same thing! Well here’s your chance to delve into Norms & Nobility, a “reappraisal of classical education” with Karen Glass, author of Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition and dive into this discussion yourself. You’ll find the discussion happening here on
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While we are getting our kids outdoors to experience God’s glorious creation, let’s remember that, though we’ve been given dominion over creation (Gen 1:26), we are also called to be good stewards (Gen 2:15). Charlotte Mason never intended nature study to be a careless ramble. In fact, she expected mothers to teach their kids reverence
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