I remember starting on my parenting journey, meeting a high school freshman who, her parents assured me, was “gifted.” She was already studying calc II (and yet she couldn’t make her own breakfast). In my youth I was an AP math student, and a math tutor in college, and I presumed my own children would […]
The Choice
My house is a wreck, my email box is flooded, my to-do list is out of control, my feet are tired….It must be August…And You’re listening to Episode 30 of The Hearth of Sap Bush Hollow: The Choice. “Have we become prisoners of the life we dreaded? Or have we chosen this?” Bob doesn’t have […]
Lessons from the Not-So-Happy Homemakers
I received a letter from a reader, Landon, last week that’s prompting this week’s post: He writes: I read your blog post about Coronavirus and saw how every choice you made focused on your community, and then saw how every tier of your Patreon included some kind of giving to the community. Why do you […]
Lucky Break
“I need a lucky break!” I scream to all of West Fulton generally, but to my friend Corny specifically. She’s driving by as I exit the post office. I turn to study the door behind me, making sure it closes properly. As the cold weather sets in, something funky happens with that door and it […]
#Hashtag This#
I don’t do snippets well. I’m pretty adept with snippy, as my cafe regulars often remind me. But the language that drives social media — concise, artful, quippy — eludes me. So do the visuals. I think in essays and full-length books. This presents a challenge as I work to communicate with the next generation. […]
Can we truly honor the earth on Earth Day?
As a radical homemaker, I want to live within the bounds of our ecosystem. But to do so, I’ve had to defy impossible odds, break the law, and quite possibly deny my children something that has been considered a fundamental entitlement in this country. This blog post is drawn from a talk I delivered in […]