Part 2 – Education's Merry Jester

The Wild Card We Call Homeschooling This fall Laura was invited to speak at the first Orthodoxy and Education Conference, hosted by the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture. Here, on our substack, we are publishing her talk in 4 parts (to allow for time for busy moms to read and reflect), but … Read more

Homeschool Mom Spotlight #4

Meet Maggie Annie We’re starting something new here at Patterns for Life: every month we will be highlighting an individual homeschool mom through a written interview in order to encourage and inspire our readers. We know it can be helpful to meet — whether virtually or in real life — other mothers who are in … Read more

Education's Merry Jester

The Wild Card We Call Homeschooling This fall Laura was invited to speak at the first Orthodoxy and Education Conference, hosted by the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture. Here, on our substack, we are publishing her talk in 4 parts (to allow for time for busy moms to read and reflect), but … Read more

Homeschool Mom Spotlight #3

Meet Katie We’re starting something new here at Patterns for Life: every month we will be highlighting an individual homeschool mom through a written interview in order to encourage and inspire our readers. We know it can be helpful to meet — whether virtually or in real life — other mothers who are in the … Read more

Merry Christmas!

Christ is born glorify Him. Christ is come from heaven receive Him. Christ is on earth be ye lifted up. Sing to the Lord all the earth and praise Him with joy, all people. For He has been glorified. ~From the First Nativity Canon, Ode 1 May your Christmas season be blessed and full of … Read more

What's in a Name?

Why we chose to name our book Patterns for Life Co-writing a book has its challenges, some of which have the potential to be so catastrophic as to shut down the project entirely. We were fortunate enough in our writing to avoid any serious setbacks, but there was one sticking point that took time to … Read more

Be Holy, So That Your Children May Be Holy

Patterns for Life audiobook Chapter 8 We often default into thinking about relationships in one-to-one terms: I meets Thou in parent-child, husband-wife, and friend-friend dichotomies. But if we broaden our understanding to meditate on the Holy Trinity, it gradually unfolds that even our I-Thou relationships are not simply linear or planar, but exist within a … Read more

Homeschool Mom Spotlight #2

Meet Jennifer Glasgow We’re starting something new here at Patterns for Life: every month we will be highlighting an individual homeschool mom through a written interview in order to encourage and inspire our readers. We know it can be helpful to meet — whether virtually or in real life — other mothers who are in … Read more