This Friday, all around the world, the writing frenzy of NaNoWriMo begins again. During NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, thousands of people world-wide challenge themselves to write a novel. Yes, a complete novel in a month—an unedited novel, mind you, but a novel none the less. My kids have participated in the Young Writer Program […]
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Review: Reading with Purpose by Nancy Wilson
Would you encourage your teen to hang out, unsupervised, with some of the most charming, persuasive, and articulate non-Christians in the world? That is what’s happening when they read literature without guidance. Obviously, this can have devastating effects. So, what is a Christian homeschooling parent to do? We must understand both the ideas and the […]
Review: Grammarly for Homeschoolers and Bloggers
Marking my teens’ writing—after helping them improve it—is exhausting. It involves evaluating their content, editing, proofreading, correcting, encouraging, and, finally, evaluating and grading. Sometimes this whole process is too much for me. And sometimes I want to pull in an outside authority who is not emotionally involved with my teens. I love blogging, reviewing, and […]
Review: Sweet Mercy by Ann Tatlock
Tired of living in a gangster town and horrified by criminal activity she has witnessed, Eve Marryat is thrilled to be moving to a more respectable place, a little town called Mercy. Her father has been laid off from the Ford Motor Company, so now Eve and her parents are going to work for her Uncle […]
Magic and the Lord of the Rings
I have issues with books involving magic. Therefore I have issues with Tolkein, although my family and other people I respect and hang out with greatly admire him. Miss 15 posted her thoughts recently in “Magic and The Lord of the Rings” and I am convinced. I think. So I may try Tolkein again. But I must […]