At the moment I am in a flap.  I haven’t really settled in to the New Year yet.  That happens to me and I always tell myself, “everything will be all right once we get into a routine.” Some years I never got into a routine.  I had to carry my diary around with me…

Today we finished our Christmas cards. On checking my super organised spreadsheet from last year, it appears that we sent out 52 carefully crafted cards and received… a whopping 17! As I was lamenting this I went through the list of those I sent, already whittled down from a hundred or so from the days…

While on retreat we wrote our goals for the week.  In the evenings and on walks we talked about positive thinking, faith, the Law of Attraction, beliefs, and a new book called, ” The Secret.”  We discussed education and how it would be changed if we were in charge.  We compared cooking techniques and how…

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Last week I had a rare experience.  I managed to get away from it all, without a member of my family for a whole week.  Now, I’ve gone away before but it’s usually one of those church sponsored retreats for a weekend, or a visit to England to see my Mum, usually with a child…

I had never heard of homeschooling while I was growing up and if I had I would have ignored the concept or cringed at the very idea of staying at home all day.  Now I think of it, I really was staying at home all day at my boarding school, but the dormitories and classrooms…

As the years drew on I finally convinced my parents I would call them once a week, on a Sunday, to chat for an hour.  I didn’t tell them the hour part, they would have never agreed to that, but it ended up being an hour usually.  They would not call me, or my brother,…

I used to talk to my mother a lot on the phone once I got over the fact that I dislike using the device to chit chat.  When I first moved to America it was sufficient for me to call on birthdays and at Christmas, in fact my parents tried to call on birthdays but…

In an article on the TodayShow.com about homeschooling in the world, I came across this remarkable family who are getting ready to take their three children on the high seas next year.  I’m talking young children, the oldest is nine! Laureen Hudson and her family live on their boat in a marina in California, from…

Now all of a sudden American teens don’t talk on the telephone any more.  Land phones are fast going out of fashion.  Mobiles, aka cells, are replacing these bastions of truth.  For, if you manage to catch your child on a land phone, chances are, he, is where he is supposed to be.  This cannot…