🐠 Fish out of water  🐠 Wild and Free get together ‘It’s going to be okay; hold it together.’ I repeat to myself as I meander around...

To homeschool or not to homeschool, that is the question. Or maybe one of the questions. We all can get to a point where we wonder if...

If you are a Friends fanatic like I am, you said pivot just like Ross while he attempted to carry his brand new couch up the stairs. You...

Coaching children; not teaching them. Making homeschool look different.

An unconventional route to homeschooling.

Time + freedom = homeschool I do. I actually have time. It feels infinite instead of finite. I have the time to say yes, read another...

I find myself Googling how to homeschool because I feel at such a loss. It's all overwhelming and heavy. I am a teacher; I know how to...

That’s what we do: we cry. A lot. I didn’t know homeschool was going to have me in tears but here I am. Maybe I am the only one and maybe...

As I talk to other parents about education, I realize how much knowledge I have acquired through the years that the typical parent would...

Life is tricky…interesting…surprising. Full of highs and lows: beautiful and messy, difficult and easy, lovely and awful. And generally...

“Uuuggghhhh! Mom!” Yelled Brayden from across the classroom. “If you would like help, please come here and I will help you,” I responded...

I’m reading The Magic by Rhonda Byrne and I fucking love it. There is no other way to say it; I suppose I could say it without the...

North Dakota is definitely known for its winters but summers are its best kept secret. As a child, I did not grow up camping. I did not...

You’re there. You contacted a life coach. You reached out and asked for help. You recognize the want to change within yourself. Now what?...

Back in 2017, I acknowledged (quietly and only to myself) I was unsure of my job. I knew I was doing a lot of work at school. I liked the...

That’s right. That’s what I said. I love resolutions. I also love the idea and feeling of a new start. A new calendar year can bring this...

Growing up, I had the most beautiful Christmas experiences. I would spend Christmas Eve getting dressed up, curling my hair, and then my...

Oddities and beauty have been found in our gift giving this week. It could be the Palidrone universe, it could be us changing for the...

If you read my piece, A Gift of Time, you know I spent the first three weeks of my school year at home with my children. It was not...

I was recently given a gift. It sure didn’t seem like it at the start but all it took was one person to point out that I had been given...