Here and There Homeschool

In my previous post I mentioned that I’ve outgrown this blog. It’s tying me down, and I honestly don’t even recognize the person from most of the posts anymore. I have started a new blog. It’s just the beginning. I want to invite you guys, whoever may be left, to get to know me for … Continue reading →

New Things

I’ve outgrown this. This place I needed to keep separate from the world. I’m too old for it. As my children grow and I come into who I am as an actual adult, I realize that my field of fucks given is growing more barren by the year. I am not a person with a … Continue reading →

A God of Great Concern

What if the way we decided to approach God started with the idea not that we are evil sinners deserving of death, but instead that God is a god of great concern. What if we have been looking at this all wrong? The religion I grew up with almost always began with the Romans Road. … Continue reading →

Pandemic High

Today I realized I haven’t really written about the pandemic. How odd. I suppose I haven’t had much time. Some people, I’m told, have taken up hobbies, worked out, read tons of books, learned a language, not me. I’ve taken up educating and entertaining my children 72-80 hours a week. I’m tired. But today, for … Continue reading →

Dear Hannah,

Girl, I know you still pray everyday that it works out. I know you try to love. I know you’re your very best self right now. I know you’re doing what’s right so you don’t have to face God and confess any different. I am so proud of you for that. Like super proud. But … Continue reading →

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Name a free woman that you know, what you could learn from her? My forehead wrinkles, my eyes look left and right and up, as if looking around my empty room will manifest a free woman in my life from whom I can learn. I don’t know any. I know women who are standing on … Continue reading →

An open letter to the Democratic Party: We’re through.

We have no loyalty to you. We consider ourselves part of your rank only as far as it serves us. It no longer serves us. You have acquiesced to our goals, you have molded yourself to our demands, and changed your foundation to match ours, but it isn’t enough. It’s not even close to enough. … Continue reading →

Freedom to Fail

My son is sitting across from me doing Math-U-See. Doing this for a month and a half very very sporadically and never forcing him to keep going after his interest wanes, we’ve accomplished 88 pages of work that’s 20% of the total coursework for math for his kindergarten year. Currently he is crossing out the … Continue reading →

Our place at the table: Contributor

That word still pings around in my head. Contributor. I’m a contributor, failure; I’m unambitious, lazy, selfish. These, and many others, I have been called for being a stay at home mom. You’d think moms would have this amazing thread tying them together, something so much bigger than us that binds us all in some … Continue reading →

On loving a mirror

My endeavor in this blog has always been to ask hard questions of myself, life, God, others. In that, I have tried my very best to be truthful. There have been times in the past when I was being truthful, but it didn’t feel like it. Some people bring that out of me more than … Continue reading →