Lisa's Odd Thoughts
Lisa's Odd Thoughts

Lisa's Odd Thoughts

Oh Yeah, I'm Overthinking It
18 Sep
Books Homeschooling Kids Stuff

How to Pre-Preschool–Part 3: Easy Letter of the Week Activities

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Check out the first two parts of this series–Part 1: Calendar Time and Part 2: Learning Board. Welcome to Part 3 of how to Pre-Preschool,...
18 Sep
Homeschooling Kids Stuff

How to Pre-Preschool–Part 2: Learning Board

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Check out the first and third parts of this series–Part 1: Calendar Time and Part 3: Letter of the Week Activities. In Part 1 I...
18 Sep
Homeschooling Kids Stuff

How to Pre-Preschool–Part 1: Calendar Time

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Check out the second and third parts of this series–Part 2: Learning Board and Part 3: Letter Activities. When my oldest was roughly three and...
06 Sep
Homeschooling

Reasons to Homeschool (aka: Reasons NOT to Public-School)

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I entertained my very first thoughts about homeschooling shortly before I got married, but years before I even had any of my own children. These...
07 Aug
Books Everything Else

The Orwellian Hijacking of Our Language: Black Lives Matter v. “black lives matter”

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George Orwell’s most famous book 1984 (published in 1949) still frightens readers with its intense story of a tyrannical government with total control over its...
26 May
Movies Writing

Star Trek Enterprise: It’s Actually Super Great

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Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and return to the early 2000s. I was in middle school when I discovered a new favorite TV...
18 Mar
Movies Writing

The Biggest Frozen Plot Hole Everyone Ignores

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I finally watched Frozen 2 (I’m super late to the game, I know) and in preparing for the sequel I watched Frozen for the first...
08 Mar
Books Movies Writing

Active Characters CAUSE the Plot

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Noveling Tips Just for Funsies I recently discussed with a writer friend of mine this unfortunately-common problem I see in stories: Passive Characters Who Don’t...
14 Feb
Holidays Marriage and Family

Things I Hate About Valentines Day

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As I’ve grown older I’ve become quite the cranky, Valentine’s Day Scrooge. Bah humbug to the cheap elementary-school Valentines cards, the mystery chocolates, the fru-fru...
30 Jan
Organization

I Clean My House Every Day…And So Can You!

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Yes, you read that right. I clean my house every day. But it’s not nearly as overwhelming as it sounds. In fact it only takes...