It’s here! Halloween is over, our new Christmas tree is up, the clocks have been set back, and I can hibernate again! It’s such a physiological shift as it is a psychological one, that it makes me believe I was a hedgehog in a…

And we’re back. Back in Corvallis. Back to homeschooling. And (in the words of Caron Wheeler), back to life, back to reality, back to the here and now, yeah. The condensed backstory goes like this: due to unforeseen circumstances, we reluctantly moved north to…

I grew up a Southern California city kid surrounded by surf and astroturf. “Being out in nature” meant driving 90 minutes to an overpriced resort town to stroll through souvenir shops and strip malls. We didn’t go to the mountains in winter because the…