Warm sunshine, cool breezes, gentle rains, sunrises, lazy mornings, beach afternoons, and late nights are all perfect times to read. Reading more (like drinking water or increasing activity!) is a powerful lifestyle change almost everyone aspires to make. Small changes in daily habits can greatly improve our well-being and enjoyment of life. I can’t help…
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Are you a Seasonal Reader?
Seasonal eating has always resonated with me. We aim to prepare meals that contain fruits and vegetables in season—comforting stews in winter, grilled meats with vibrant, fresh salads in summer—with these choices, we can connect deeply with nature’s rhythms. We all do a version of that, right? But what about the natural rhythms of reading?…
2024 Reading List & Lynne’s Top 5+
2024 had all the things: great opportunities, abundant travel, adventure, quality time, many firsts, and a few lasts. We shared the year with new and old friends, lots of family, and great love. Generally, I felt distracted this year (empty nesting? politics? snuggling my cat?) and thought I read less than in prior years. However,…
Favorite Books of 2023
Do I write about reading too often? Probably. But I am deeply passionate about books, and I love this end-of-year reflection ritual. Books are a gift that we give ourselves, and reading allows us to grow and learn in the seclusion of our homes. When we choose what and when we read, we educate, enlighten,…
Favorite Books of 2021
Narrowing my annual reading list to just five or six favorites is an enjoyable self-directed task. Oddly, I love that I do this nerdly thing each year because the time spent in reflection is a gift I give myself. So much of what we read serves a purpose: to entertain, inform, learn or improve ourselves….
2020 Reading List and Lynne’s Top 5
Since the early pandemic months of 2020, I knew this would be a good year for reading. One of the gifts of being sequestered, quarantined, or otherwise detained at home is having plenty of quality reading time. I loaded myself up with online book orders this year and spent my grateful-for-everything days and nights tending…
A Little Christmas Library
Our Victorian-era house has a small library, so collecting gorgeous and favorite books is not a new thing for us. Our library is ‘artfully curated’ – which means it is interesting, but not exactly organized. I have it laid out in sections by genre and again by the author but fall short of actual cataloging,…
Poetry, the Easy Way
“Without poetry, we lose our way.” —Joy Harjo, current U.S. Poet Laureate & Academy of American Poets Chancellor A favorite children’s book with beautiful illustrations by Jean Pierre Siméon; paintings by Oliver Tallec. … Want to add in some easy poetry to your homeschool world? Start by checking out poets.org. Housing the works of over 3,000…
Curious about Homeschool?
Introducing: GO TIMBALERO HOMESCHOOL COACHING By now, I think everyone understands that distance learning is not homeschool. They are near opposites at their core. But how to transition from one to the other? I can help you explore this idea and provide direction for preparing your homeschool plan – whether you want to give…
Homeschool Pie!
If our school was a delicious home-made pie, literature-based learning would be one half of that pie, one-quarter pie would be hands-on learning (labs, art, music, travel), and the remaining one-quarter pie would be workbooks, textbooks, lectures, essays, tests and quizzes. “Homeschooling is a superpower, when it comes to your child’s reading life and learning…
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