Narration—it’s what’s for breakfast.
Imagine the most wonderful breakfast you’ve ever had, or dreamed of having. Of course there will be multiple parts to it. Eggs, bacon, toast, biscuits, delicious jelly, perhaps pancakes or waffles with...
View ArticleUpcoming online courses
I began teaching online classes earlier this year. So far, I’ve taught several sessions of a book study on my own book, In Vital Harmony, which I’ll offer again in the future. I’ve received several...
View ArticleHappy Christmas to all!
In 2020, I posted a series of four “nuggets from the Armitt,” in which I shared fun tidbits that I gleaned from my visit to the Armitt museum in Ambleside, England, where all of Charlotte Mason’s and...
View ArticleNuggets from the Armitt #5
This particular nugget will be especially valuable to parents of older children. If you have been using Charlotte Mason’s methods for a good while, you have probably found that, at approximately age 12...
View ArticleNuggets from the Armitt #6
One of my favorite books is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I have read it countless times, and reread it in every decade of my life. I love Francie Nolan, who once got a job at a Press...
View ArticleNuggets from the Armitt #7
One of the interesting things buried in various volumes of the L’Umile Pianta are records of the questions that teachers had about little practical details. Sometimes they had the advantage of being...
View ArticleNuggets from the Armitt #8
Do you keep a commonplace book? Many Charlotte-Mason-inspired readers do, and we encourage our older students to keep one as well, in lieu of the copywork that belongs to younger children. Since...
View ArticleBooks and Reading 2022
I’ve published a post like this for many years. 2017. 2018. 2019. I did not publish one in 2020. Guess why? I did read books in 2020, but I was mostly in survival mode, and I wasn’t terribly...
View ArticleA Long-awaited Book
I don’t know that anyone else has been waiting a long time, but I have! I began writing this book in 2019 and now it’s 2024. Many things have happened since I began, and of course I wasn’t working on...
View ArticleAt last—Much May Be Done with Sparrows!
I’m so pleased to be able to share that this little chapbook collection of essays is ready to make its way out of my “to do” pile of thinking, editing, formatting, and proofing and into the wider...
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