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About lettersfromheartscontent

I'm a writer working on YA fiction. I am also a mother of six, grandmother, wife to a forester, former homeschool teacher and tutor with Classical Conversations. Now retired from teaching Music at a small Christian school. In retirement I am writing, care-giving, decluttering, and calling village dances in order to give groups of strangers the joy of accomplishing something good together.

Can anything good come out of Vermont?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

Years ago, when Vermont had a Christian homeschool state organization, its president asked me why it was so hard to find people willing to serve as leaders.  A mother of small children at the time, I figured it was the … Continue reading →

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Concatenation of Circumstances

Posted on April 24, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

Well. Allow me a moment to push the hair out of my face and smooth down my dress.  That was some wild ride. Let me work this out.  Today was Day 1 of a two week cleanse diet, worked out … Continue reading →

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Dinner Conversation

Posted on April 11, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

All done. No more. I quit. The vacuous, barbarian, stoopid comments that drool out of my family’s mouths at the dinner table have to go. At the end of the day I lack the creativity to start and guide good … Continue reading →

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A Mother Wonders About Philosophy

Posted on March 5, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.”    Jostein Gaarder in Sophie’s World When I read this statement in Sophie’s World, my son’s Challenge I philosophy textbook for spring semester, I heard echoes of … Continue reading →

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Coloring Between the Lines

Posted on January 1, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

I drive up to church earlier than my family because I help lead the singing that opens Sunday School. As I drove up today through the valleys to Woodstock I peered hungrily through frosty car windows, looking for anything to … Continue reading →

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Verses from a Vermont Hilltop

Posted on December 21, 2011 by lettersfromheartscontent

I found a book of poetry on the coffee table at the Ears, Nose and Throat office in Springfield, and borrowed it. Unless urgency insists I carry something to the house when I arrive at home, some items can get … Continue reading →

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Before

Posted on November 12, 2011 by lettersfromheartscontent

As promised, here is a picture of my new bike, as yet unnamed. It is also a ‘before’ picture to which we will look back and marvel. With God’s help I will stop thinking like a 30 year old and … Continue reading →

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Forward Motion

Posted on November 6, 2011 by lettersfromheartscontent

This week my students and my daughter are studying Inferences of Categorical Statements in Logic, taking a midterm on all the declensions in Latin, writing a paper on what they would be willing to work two years to accomplish, doing … Continue reading →

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Signs of the Season

Posted on October 30, 2011 by lettersfromheartscontent
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Whether We Will Weather the Wild Weather

Posted on October 30, 2011 by lettersfromheartscontent

Robbo says we in New England live at the end of a weather funnel.  Weather from the southern US and from the west converges on our region, like water going down a drain. At the Montshire Museum in Norwich Vermont … Continue reading →

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