HEM, March-April, 2002
“…Like the word ‘organic,’ which once meant grown without chemicals and now merely seems to mean grown, the word ‘homeschooling’ is losing all functional meaning.” ~Helen Hegener, The Golden Age of Homeschooling
One of the more fascinating websites and blogs I’ve come across recently is Lawrence Lessig’s; Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of [...]
Shay Seaborne’s Synergy Field
A homeschool mom I know says, “the problem with support groups is they’re made up of people who need support.”
I’d only planned on quoting the short snippet above. But this second paragraph is just too delicious to let go unquoted:
I used to expect that parents who choose to homeschool are naturally more [...]
AHA Weblogs Blog: Home Education Magazine Editor’s Blog
I was writing a letter to a friend this morning, trying to explain why I feel so amazingly optimistic about the homeschooling community these days, and I thought maybe I should share some of what I’d written with my blog readers:
We coordinated with Kim Campbell last year to [...]
Continue reading about The Homeschooling Community: AHA Weblogs Blog
Cruising a few weblogs at random today I came across one with this title and, remembering a favorite HEM columnist who’d used that line many years ago, I thought to myself, “What are the chances…”
It wasn’t the long-lost columnist (who I’d love to touch base with again), but a lovely and utterly engaging blog by [...]


