One of the tricky things about learning French is learning the gender of the nouns. This is important because several words in a sentence can depend on a noun’s gender, and if you get that wrong, much of the sentence is wrong. Traditionally, you just learn which nouns are masculine and feminine as you learn […]
older teens and adults
For our college age young people, and also for ourselves as homeschooling moms. (I used to tag this as ‘adult’ but my hubby told me that had the wrong connotation.)
Zeal Without Burnout for Homeschoolers
At this time of year most homeschoolers are feeling a little bit burnt out. That’s no wonder after an intense ten months of teaching some of the most important people in our lives some of the most important things they will ever learn. Or perhaps vainly trying to teach them without actually succeeding, which is […]
Review: Fundamentals I from Traditional Cooking School by GNOWFGLINS
For the last few years, my kitchen has been rather boring—there has been good healthy food, especially when the garden is producing, but very little excitement. That is changing now that I’m studying Fundamentals I: The Basics of Traditional Cooking. The course ebook is appropriately subtitled Make your kitchen healthy one task at a time, […]
Review: Darwin, The Voyage that Shook the World
Many of the papers and books I’ve been reading these days have been influenced by Darwin’s thought; most of our news items are as well; and our entire culture is driven by offshoots of his ideas. Science, politics, medicine, social sciences, law, literature, music, and even Christian thought have largely absorbed Darwinian concepts of survival […]