Does the internet solve boredom? Welcome to the Diner! Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In … Read more

The internet as fairyland? Welcome to the Diner! Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In today’s … Read more

Let’s cut back on the noise If you read here regularly you may have noticed that we’ve been fairly quiet over the past few months. Both and I believe that it’s important to step back from fairyland sometimes and re-orient ourselves in the real world, and Great Lent was a good opportunity for us to … Read more

Part 2 of a talk by Laura E. Wolfe, given at the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture’s Orthodoxy and Education Conference on October 17, 2025. If you haven’t read the first part of this presentation, check it out here! Here is where Charlotte Mason comes back in: Her principles of education naturally … Read more

A talk by Laura E. Wolfe, given at the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture’s Orthodoxy and Education Conference on October 17, 2025. I’ve been working on this talk for a few months now, so the ideas here have been on my mind for a while. But just this past week, a couple … Read more

Meet Juliana Christ is Risen, dear readers! Every month here at Patterns for Life we highlight 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 trenches … Read more

Meet Sarah Every month here at Patterns for Life we highlight 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 trenches with us here and now, … Read more

What are we actually doing when we read to children? After reading the essays at The Christian Imagination a few weeks ago, I bit the bullet and ordered The Haunted Wood by Sam Leith. I’m just a few chapters in, and I’m so excited to write about this book and what it means for us … Read more

What homeschoolers can learn from Abba Moses If you follow a traditional-ish school calendar, starting sometime in the fall and ending when it’s too nice out to stay inside anymore, you may have noticed that sometime after Christmas things start to feel a little stale. The beginning-of-the-year determination and momentum has, after the excitement of … Read more

Meet Amanda Every month here at Patterns for Life we highlight 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 trenches with us here and now, … Read more