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Recipe: Linda’s Irish Soda Bread
By Polly Castor on March 17, 2014Read moreI was fortunate to have Linda’s soda bread this weekend and it was the best I’ve ever tasted –nothing...
00Book Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
By Polly Castor on March 16, 2014Read moreUnexpectedly, I really enjoyed this fun, light book, and give this romping novel four stars.
Make the Ordinary Come Alive
By Polly Castor on March 15, 2014Read moreDo not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is a way of foolishness.
About the New SAT
By Polly Castor on March 14, 2014Read moreWell there has been a lot of buzz about the new revision to the SAT that will apply to...
Two Tissue Paper Collages
By Polly Castor on March 13, 2014Read moreI love working with colored tissue paper, and am intrigued with the layering possibilities of it. The only problem...
Recipe: Baked Pumpkin Donuts
By Polly Castor on March 12, 2014Read moreMy husband makes these along with Apple/Spice ones in a specialty pan I bought on vacation in Maine...
Three New Handmade Pottery Pieces
By Polly Castor on March 11, 2014Read moreI recently made the large scrafitto popcorn bowl, and the carved vase. Our youngest daughter made the amazing teapot...
A Question Guide to Discussing Art
By Polly Castor on March 10, 2014Read moreI think it is important to talk about art, but many people don’t know where to begin. This question...
Current Indoor Blooms
By Polly Castor on March 9, 2014Read moreWe’ve had one or another amaryllis blooming and my husband can make orchids rebloom with apparent ease; there are...
A Poem by Dawna Markova
By Polly Castor on March 8, 2014Read moreI choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as...
A Last Painting of my Mom’s
By Polly Castor on March 7, 2014Read moreAnd in that box was the abstract, my last painting from my Mom...
No Formulas for Homeschooling High School
By Polly Castor on March 6, 2014Read moreHigh school is a time to tailor offerings even more diligently to the specific needs of our unique pupils...