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I’m not sure why, but whenever someone calls me a prolific writer, it makes me cringe. Why is that? It has some sort of negative implication which I can’t quite tease out. Anyway, [...]

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 [...]