I am considering the childhood that encouraged me to homeschool this afternoon. I talk about being alone in a large house as we teeter on Empty Nest. I am starting Chapter 4 in my book, Popular is Only a Word Unless You’re a Teenager. We have a new grand baby, it’s a dog, Buddy, and…
My Texan and I are up to our eyes in taxes… and summer musical auditions. I love being part of the casting process and the diversity of my life. I talk about the staff that go into the successful launching of a production. My teenage daughter and I share a car and sometimes the results…
I am broadcasting outside today listening to the birds while I talk. The weather is warming up. We have auditions for Garland Summer Musicals, My Fair lady and 42nd Street. My book excerpt this week is about Obedience and expectations at my school…the few rules we have in our house. Linda Kane is my guest…
I am up to my eyes in the Easter party preparations, but have to get through Good Friday, today, and the Vigil, tomorrow evening before we can celebrate the Risen Christ. I will be looking at customs and pagan rituals in the light of Christian traditions and touching on a few superstitions that surround today!…
It’s the end of March and we got heavy snow in the night so my youngest and I went out and made the most of it. Snow Day! I will talk about the foundation of successful homeschooling and parenting: Obedience, at whatever level you require it! Join me as I speak to Debra Bell an…
I battle with loose wires in a wireless age, our family is pet-less after ten years, the power of saying “no” and a final Stations of the Cross before Holy Week are all on the agenda this week. Mr. Shelby Sharpe is my most esteemed guest this week. He has been a lawyer since 1965…
My preferred form of exercise is Jazzercise, my daughter dances at the college and my son rock climbs no wonder there is a never ending saga of laundry in our house! I will also be remembering my homeschooling teething pangs! This week my guest is, Hannah Keeley, host of the PBS T.V. show, “Hannah Help Me!”…
We’re in the middle of Lent and my youngest son has a birthday, I talk about his struggle with moving on while confronted with a problem, my terrible first day of homeschooling and how lucky we are not to be living in Germany! My guest is Julie Meekins, a homeschooler who refused to take the…
On my show this week I talk about The Daughters of the British Empire and what it’s like to bring a boyfriend home in our household! My guest this week is Mike Donnelly from HSLDA where he serves as staff attorney and director of international relations. Mike works to encourage greater freedom for homeschoolers…
Today I’m on about snow, our delicious dinner club with Thai food and national dress. I explain where one of my daughter’s got her name and go into the reasons for recording my children’s favorite books on tape. I am talking to Gretchen Roe this week who is the Community Liaison for Calvert School. As…
I have had my hair cut. I tell the story of my coming to America. Customs Officers are beginning to pick at my Resident Alien Card each time I go through Passport Control. I reminisce about early homeschooling memories and the NEA statement on education takes my train of thought to public education when it…
it was safer to homeschool her children in their house in the hills than to send them to school where they could get caught on the street in a crossfire.
Homeschooling isn’t all it seems!
This concise, easy-to-read book gives a complete argument for the validity of the Christian faith. By highlighting the physical, chemical, and biological evidence indicating that the world was designed, the author demonstrates that science points unmistakably to the existence of God — and not just any god, but the God of the Bible. This book…
Tricia Goyer tells the little-known, but true story of the orchestra started by prisoners in Hitler’s Mauthausen death camp. A beautiful member of the Austrian resistance, the American GI who loves her, and a young prisoner who fakes his way into the camp orchestra in a desperate attempt to stay alive.
The Birth to Five Book offers parents practical, down-to-earth help and success strategies for this big responsibility. Young parents will love this collection of commonsense advice. From feeding and reading to discipline, toilet training, and play, it’s all here in simple terms
A tough-love book to help readers cope with dysfunctional adult children, Allison Bottke’s book will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.–a six-step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives.
Llisa Shusterman and her family travelled around the world in a year. What makes a trip of this magnitude happen? This book brings vivid,entertaining and informative anecdotes from six continents.
Hello I'm Vivienne McNeny, English to the core and I've just put the kettle on so while its boiling let me tell you a little about myself. I was raised in a convent boarding school while my parents diplomatically hosted cocktail parties at foreign Embassies.
After performing in operettas as leading men and prima ballerinas I read child psychology at London Uni; flipped my speedboat while racing in the channel; taught windsurfing and water ski-ing in Southern Andalucia; an American fell in love with me in London and I took up homeschooling in Texas before our children were too old to object.
