Helen on January 1st, 2008

It is with great delight that I direct my blog readers to an absolutely marvelous tribute to our 25th Anniversary of publishing Home Education Magazine!
Be sure to scroll down the page to read the wonderful personal notes from our friends, colleagues, and fellow supporters of homeschooling. I’ve been reading them for a few hours now [...]

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Helen on November 18th, 2007

Our January-February, 2008 issue will mark the beginning of our 25th year of publishing Home Education Magazine.
A quarter of a century!
A couple of years ago I started writing a history of how we started the magazine, and those posts can still be found in the blog archive, under the category History of Homeschooling. To make [...]

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Helen on April 1st, 2007

I was looking through our March/April issue last night, as we get ready to send our May/June issue to the printer this week, and I came across my publisher’s note in the HEM Notebook section. I thought some of my blog readers, who may not all be subscribers, might enjoy reading this short essay on [...]

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Helen on February 26th, 2007

In the current issue of Home Education Magazine we feature an article titled “From Anchorage to Nome,” by homeschooling mom Lisa Amstutz, about the 1,150 mile dogsled race in Alaska. The article is an excellent introduction for anyone interested in learning more about this historic race, which starts this year on Saturday, March 3rd. Here [...]

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Helen on October 31st, 2006

Watercolor Children
by Helen Hegener – July/August, 2002
As a writer I work with the precise meanings of words. Control and mastery are important when one is trying to convey an idea, an emotion, or an experience. Realizing many years ago that writing was a very controlled activity, and seeking an alternative which might help me loosen [...]

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