I would like to start off with something that everyone is familiar with in one form or another if you don’t know what love is.. damn, that is just sad. There are different types of love according to me,

I really enjoy cooking or maybe it’s the eating part that I really like best. Not sure. Don’t have much time during the week to spend cooking and try to avoid microwaveable processed crap. So weekends

Coming up on the 3-1/2 week mark of being gluten-free. I went out to dinner tonight and ordered salmon and broccoli with a salad with Italian dressing. Something here must have had wheat because I am sick

I haven’t been as active on this blog as I intended to be. My goal was to get more into writing. And while I have been doing the writing part for a book I haven’t been doing as much on here as I would

So this rounds out the second week of being gluten-free. My reasons for turning into this ultra-picky eater and now being one of those girls I used to roll my eyes at when they ordered…is due to health

School is expensive! And it’s only going to get more so. The days of parents paying for their children’s degrees has pretty much ended. This makes it harder for young adults to finish a degree. They have

What about your cleaning routine? As daunting as it can be to realize you have an hour to wash and dry your hair, make up on, eyebrows, nails, and get out the door, it can be even more daunting to suddenly

Hubby and I decided last year that we would get Christmas photos taken every year of our little family so we could watch it grow throughout the years. And yes, Raja is a part of this little family. So,

Before my kids became teenagers, I was still using the same worn-out old slang phrases I’d been carting around for years. I’d tell my kids to “chill out” and “stop trippin” when they were “acting up.”

My advice of the day is to get your child a mobile phone. If you haven’t already. That way, when your child is bored in school, she can text her friends or check her Facebook. Seriously. My policy is this:

What is at the center of a black hole? Don’t ask me; I have no idea. Kids ask a lot of questions, not all as difficult as this one, but every parent fears not knowing the answer, to have to admit. “I don’t

In 9th through 12th grades, the Rhetoric Stage of the trivium, the student uses what they’ve acquired in the first two stages to write and speak about subjects across the curriculum. Formal rhetorical

In 5th-8th grade, you can begin a study of formal logic if you are following a classical curriculum. Formal logic is simply a set of rules that help one analyze the trustworthiness of the information received

How do we teach rhetoric? How do you approach a concept that is so all-encompassing? Like I said, it’s a process. So, you start early, lay the groundwork, and build slowly by showing connections. One nice

I thought the word ‘rhetoric’ was an insult – describing the kind of speech that is all about flash and nothing about substance. I thought it was something old and Greek and no longer of much use. It is

I cleaned out our bins of educational games we used in homeschool over the weekend. Here is a list of some of our favorite board games for kids in a variety of subjects. Professor Noggin’s Ancient

Here are some Olympics lesson-plan resources that will help you bring the Sochi Olympics into your classroom. The New York Times Learning Network features as lesson called An Olympics in the Shadow of

Reader Idea | Practicing 'Detective Skills' With Infamous Local News Stories - NYTimes.com Clarence Davis/The Daily News, via Getty Images I absolutely love this creative lesson plan using news stories

One of the trends in college education is away from general education and toward an early focus on a major. Before the end of my son’s first semester at college, his adviser encouraged him rather forcefully

In an interview with The Atlantic’s David Cutler, historian and author Eric Foner talks about teachers who influenced him and how high school teachers can better prepare students for college-level history