The past few weeks I’ve been planning for the new school year. It’s always exciting and a little daunting to plan for the year ahead. This year I find myself in a new place, realizing this will be the last year the boys with be with us in some subjects (like history) as after this…
Novels inspired by Greek myths for every age. Adult Fiction This Tender Land Part Huckleberry Finn, part The Odyssey, this book has characters you won’t want to let go. I absolutely loved it! As someone who also loves The Odyssey, I loved trying to guess what part the author was going to include from that great epic story…
This year we used Beautiful Feet’s Ancient History as the starting point for our history studies. We–or at least I–was very excited to return to the ancient period! As always, I took Beautiful Feet’s Ancient History curriculum and made it my own. We used The Story of the World: Ancient Times as our base to…
A war photographer’s memoir details what it’s like living on conflict’s front line. It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario had been on my Hoopla wishlist for a long time. For years, I passed it by to choose other titles. Then, Russia attacked Ukraine and while following the…
Check out the restaurants, cafes, shops, and hiking near Frederick, Maryland. A few weeks ago my husband and I got away for two nights in Frederick, Maryland. Frederick is a place we’d wanted to explore for a long time, but had never gotten around to taking a trip there. Frederick is an old town with…