Year: 2023

Well. It’s year-end and not counting this entry, I updated this blog 18 times. How’d I do?  Even though it’s totally cliche, I feel as though it’s also totally appropriate, given today’s date, to highlight the highs and completely ignore the lows for 2023. However, I’m tired and I can’t remember much. Plus I don’t…

I’m not a very good story-teller. All too often, I lose the plot part way along, and if there’s ever supposed to be a punchline, I never do justice to the delivery. Usually, my oral stories take one of three paths: one that’s never just the ‘long story short’ but instead has all the bonus…

Whew. What a week it’s been. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in college application nonsense and we’ve finally crossed the threshold of the worst part to the easy part. Feverishly spending hours writing recommendations, school profiles, filling in forms, answering questions, waiting for call-backs from the Home School Legal Aid helpline, and prodding Isaac…