Quick Veggie Stir-Fry Recipe & Back-to-Schoolishness
Follow me Here’s a puzzlement for you, gentle reader: if you are a farmer (raising hand) or a serious gardener (same) and you spend self-indulgent (ha) amounts of time during…
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Follow me A recent post by Ben Hewitt rung true to my heart, right now, right where we are. Bryan and I bought our country place place thirteen years ago,…
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Follow me I was a public school kid, and I liked school. So people have asked me, over the years, why I…
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Follow me Pity the plight of the last-born in a large family. My youngest, little Mack, is 6 years old and clearly wins some and loses some, due to his…
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Follow me (A version of this article was published in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and Homeschool Iowa Magazine, with photo credits going to Rebecca Miller and Amy Young Miller.) My…
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