Are you a fan of The Bloggess? No? For shame! You don’t like laughing til you tinkle in your panties? Expand your horizons people! I routinely read The Bloggess for damp laughs, and the last couple of days have more …
Today is my day to post at An Intense Life. The topic? The needs of parents of gifted kids. I believe that too often parents put their needs last (and hooboy am I guilty of that), but you can’t pour from …
I am so fortunate, and so grateful, to know Christine Fonseca. We met last year as she was promoting her two non-fiction books on gifted students, and I’m honored to call her a friend. (Full disclosure: I am one of …
Good God, here we go again. And I thought it was going to be a quiet evening, just me and a glass of wine and the dog and doing a little writing on my book. But it’s amazing how fast …
Back up a couple of weeks, and you’ll see I snuck in a sentence about a book when I was expounding upon being grateful: I am grateful to have been asked to write a book on parenting (and now homeschooling) the …
Today at 3:45 PM central standard time two wildly different and wonderful things happened. Winter break, for which I have pined all this autumn, began with smiles and candy canes and backpacks overflowing with holiday crafts. The other? The House …
Oh, the much-too-brief Thanksgiving break is over. And the winter break is much-too-distant. Between now and then are events of the holiday sort, of the business trip sort, and of the elementary school sort. Report cards come out this week, …
When I was in high school I had a great science teacher who introduced me to the books of Oliver Sacks (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat). I was hooked, in a “I’m never going to be …
Well. If there was ever a book that would describe my life, here it is. The very title supports what we have known for a long time (and confirmed by a teacher last year): that traditional public school just isn’t …
I think it’s been well established here that A thinks outside the box. He not only thinks outside the box, but jumps on top of it and yells at the world that the box is simply a way to get …
