by Annie Crawford Fragmentation is a word I find myself often thinking and saying the past few years. So many things in our culture feel like they are falling apart. Though long a favorite poem, Yeats’s prophetic words have never rang so self-evidently true:  Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear […]

Around mid-February, our family and homeschool community begin to struggle with that demon who seems to especially delight in tormenting students and educators: Slog. Stupider than his colleagues Wormwood and Screwtape, Slog speaks few words to his deceive victims: he simply weighs down the heart of teacher, parent, and student by whispering over and over, “Look how much you have to do.”