I’m at the Southeast Homeschool Expo in Atlanta this weekend–with my mother, which is a treat because we don’t usually travel together (we tend to divide our energies and attend [...]
OK, all you workshop-attendees in Texas and Georgia, here is a copy of the overhead I put up at the end of the writing lecture. (For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking [...]
The fourth and final entry in my “Evolving Life of a Writer/Homeschool Parent†series. I highly recommend contrasting this with Entry One… A DAY IN THE LIFE 2001: a day with four [...]
Here’s Entry Three (of four…then we go back to talking about indexing and proofreading and other stirring pastimes…) in my “Evolving Life of a Writer/Homeschool Parent†series. [...]
Here’s Entry Two in my “Evolving Life of a Writer/Homeschool Parent” series. This takes place about a year and a half after Entry One… A DAY IN THE LIFE 1999: a day with a [...]
After finishing off those third-edition revisions to The Well-Trained Mind, I took some time to sort through a bunch of related materials that needed filing…and discovered four different [...]
Having finished proofing the indexing to The Art of the Public Grovel, I settled myself in last week to an equally exciting task: writing up the revisions for the tenth anniversary edition of The [...]
My friend and neighbor Charlie Park (whose wife Sarah draws the BEAUTIFUL maps in my history books) has just launched his own company, Pear Budget. Go check it out: it’s an easy-to-use [...]
I’m still second drafting. Which means I’ve been putting off answering reader emails for a couple of months now; I like answering them, but lots of things get delayed when I’m [...]
Conference season has now officially begun! I took off last Thursday to speak at a convention on Long Island (my first time there!), and although I intended to take pictures while I was there, I [...]
Sundays are work days for us, so Mondays are our days off. It’s sprinkling a little this morning, but not too hard; the windows are open and the birds are singing. The neighbor’s cows [...]
So I’m getting up at a dark and owl-haunted hour six days a week, laboring away morning by morning on a book which is impossibly huge and complicated. (Excuse me for a moment. HISTORY OF [...]
