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Call for Homeschool Survey Respondents
The survey closed on July 31. Thank you to everyone who responded! I anticipate doing a follow up survey later this year, building upon results from the first group. If you would like to participate in...
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Jobs for Homeschool Parents are Diverse, Eclectic
Last year, I said that we needed to hear more stories of “real-life working homeschool” parents. I had “the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker” in mind in that post, but research for my book...
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“Homeschool Domination” Seems a Little Much, But Then Look at the Stats
Following up on yesterday’s post about job titles of my survey participants and interviewees, I wanted to share with y’all this really cool infographic that I ran across in my research recently. It’s a...
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Can a Woman Have a Satisfying Creative Life While Homeschooling?
This post originally appeared over at SlowBurbs.com last year with a different title. The story is gaining new relevance as I work on a particular chapter in my book, one about how the education of...
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Look for Me on the Tee-Vee, San Antonio
Later this morning I’m booked to appear on WOAI’s San Antonio Living to talk about homeschooling and my forthcoming book on “how to work and homeschool” from GHF Press. If you’re in the area, you’re...
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{From Blog Post to Book Tour} Random Thoughts on the Book, Giftedness,...
Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve started to turn in chapters for The Book. Okay, so I’ve only turned in one chapter, but as it is the first of the two most challenging ones–and the second most...
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The Day My Manuscript Fell Apart
“Dawn Treaders” by Kaylen False A few months back I promised to share with you the progress of my forthcoming book. Well, guess what? It fell apart yesterday. Yes, it was a hot mess of horrible. But I...
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{From Blog Post to Bookshelf} Why Anticipating and Appeasing the Haters is...
I’m stuck on the last chapter of my book and it’s driving me crazy. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve become so worried about what critics of my “big ideas” will say–and trying to appease them in my...
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{From Blog Post to Bookshelf} Let’s Ease Up on the Gas Pedal, Shall We, Busy...
Last week I turned in my second draft to my editor, a good two weeks before my first draft was due. Somehow, even with major health setbacks from my Graves Disease, I met my deadline. Heck, I even...
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Just popping in to say…
Whoa, y’all. My new site, HowtoWorkandHomeschool.com, has come together more quickly than I imagined. I’ve just uploaded several posts there to run in April, so I can start the new month on my...
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{From Blog Post to Bookshelf} How I Let Go of Imposter Syndrome to Become the...
I’m a writer. It took me almost 32 years, two degrees, and three full-time jobs to lay claim to that term. And here I am, ten years later waiting for my first non-fiction book to come out and working...
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{From Blog Post to Bookshelf} Know Someone Who Wants to Chat about Working...
In case you’re wondering about the book’s progress, it’s being laid out this week. And I think that we’ve just agreed upon a title–but I still can’t tell you about that, yet. I will, however. And...
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{From Blogpost to Bookshelf} Come Talk with Me About How You can Go from...
At some point weeks ago here at RedWhiteandGrew.com I mentioned that I would dedicate time this summer to talking about writing. Ta-da! Now I have two events lined up on that front. One is a panel,...
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Reminder! Reminder! Reminder!
I’m giving a talk this weekend at the San Antonio Public Library’s Parman Branch location. That’s a screen grab for the PowerPoint above. See how it compliments the flyer from the library? Would any...
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From Blog Post to Bookshelf: The Final Countdown to My First Book
Excuse me. My ’80s roots are showing… I’ve been humming this song all week. As many of you know, my first book – on working homeschool parents–comes out in the middle of July. Which means the days of...
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{Book Excerpt and Poll} What Makes a Homeschooler an “Entrepreneur”?
My book, How to Work and Homeschool, “officially” debuts this week! (Some folks have already found it on Amazon.) To mark the occasion, I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite paragraphs from...
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In Honor of the “How to Work and Homeschool” Blog Book Tour
I really couldn’t be happier with how this little “virtual tour” has turned out. My first book has picked up quite a few readers and I’ve seen a surge in interest in the topic on Facebook, Pinterest,...
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Great Resources for Parents on Bullying and Cyberbullying
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. It also happens to be the month in which I’ve taken public my months-long research project into the impact of bullying upon gifted and twice exceptional...
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{From Blog to Book} Yeah, So THIS Happened…
Seems like my li’l indie homeschool book is finding its footing. 1K followers on Facebook soon after publication is worth celebrating, especially since it appears to be based primarily on...
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{From Blog to Book} 5 Things Bloggers Need to Know Before Writing a Book
Currently I’m streamlining and tweaking my hour-long “how to write a book presentation” for a 30-minute talk at BlogItSA. The topic is “blog to book,” which fits well since I documented my experience...
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