I Won’t Take No For An Answer My newest book, Southern Grit: Stories from My Grandparents, is a marriage of memoir and life lessons from two of the most influential people in my life – my Mamaw and Papaw. I wanted to mine treasures from their lives and...
Who was Helen Keller? If you are over the age of thirty, you probably learned about her in middle school history. The blind and deaf girl who, at the turn of the century, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, overcame impossible odds to learn not only to...
It is January. That means packed gyms, new diets, and New Year’s resolutions. You either jump on the resolution band wagon or you don’t. Generally there aren’t many fence sitters to the resolution game. I am a New Year’s resolution kind of a girl. I love a fresh...
Before we moved to Spain, I had never considered living outside the US. While I knew it was always within the realm of possibility as a military family, we were never actively pursuing it. Our move to Spain was unique because it would put us...
During our sixteen-year nomadic journey from one home to the next, we have lived in everything from a cookie-cutter three-bedroom two bath, to a 100-year-old apartment, to a sprawling Spanish villa. The highs and lows of each house have given us a clearer picture of...
From the outside, military kids’ lives often look like a page out of Oh the Places You’ll Go. From riding camels in Egypt to surfing in Hawaii, to field trips to the flight simulators and seeing the northern lights in Alaska – on any given...
Is God good even when He says no to our most desperate prayers? I am a teacher. Some days my kids probably wish that I weren’t because it makes for longer than average explanations, a sometimes over-enthusiasm for learning, and a high standard for...
American Cemetery – Normandy, France I grew up in the heart of the Bible Belt, in a county that, thirty years ago, barely scraped the corner of metro-Atlanta. It’s the kind of place where everyone goes to church on Sunday, waves an American flag, drinks sweet...
This is my sixth and final article in my Homeschooling 101 Series. Catch up on earlier posts about the decision to homeschool, choosing curriculum, planning and organization, juggling multiple ages and establishing a purposeful...
I am excited to feature my friend and fellow homeschooling mom of five, Leigh Gust, in my Homeschooling 101 Series! She is sharing her wisdom about why Morning Time is so valuable and how you can incorporate it, even if you don’t homeschool! You can follow Leigh...
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