Entrepreneurship / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published February 1, 2012 · Last modified November 30, 2015
I receive e-mail through a Google apps interface that provides a calendar and docs, and handles mail in Gmail style. Every time I’ve logged in recently, a banner over my inbox has invited me to receive desktop notifications of new e-mail as...
Entrepreneurship / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published December 5, 2011 · Last modified April 15, 2015
So . . . exactly how many things are you doing at this very moment? How many programs are open on your computer, and how many windows in your browser? If you’re anything like me, I’m guessing there are too...
High School, College, and Alternatives / Home School / Inspiration and encouragement / Language Arts and Literature / Organization
by Janice Campbell · Published August 9, 2011
The Blog Carnival offers inspiration and encouragement as summer winds down and school begins. Enjoy!
Entrepreneurship / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published August 4, 2011 · Last modified August 31, 2015
I hadn’t planned to read David Allen’s splendid Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity this summer, but when I found myself going in panicky circles after a recent business trip, trying to unpack, uncover my desk, plan means,...
Entrepreneurship / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published July 22, 2011 · Last modified March 13, 2017
As you try to decide what to do for your first microbusiness, you may be tempted to research trends in order to find the most profitable niche. Research has it’s place, of course, but it’s not the only tool for...
Home School / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published April 25, 2011 · Last modified August 31, 2015
Or maybe you’ll get somewhere, but it won’t be anywhere you were hoping to be. It takes focus to keep your eye on a distant goal while juggling present responsibilities. It also takes a bit of pruning– cutting out all...
Creativity and Soul Care / Home School / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published January 3, 2011 · Last modified November 30, 2015
Here’s how you can make your personal New Year a time of renewal and refreshment. Think through goals and routines, and create priorities that help you, like Mary, focus on “the better part.”
Home School / Inspiration and encouragement / Organization
by Janice Campbell · Published December 28, 2010
Are you ready for 2011? For the last Carnival of Homeschooling for 2010, we have a loose collection of posts under the general topic of Making Time for Things that Matter. I find that the beginning of a new year...
Here’s our annual conference newsletter handout with booklists and articles. We’d rather be sharing it in person, but for now, you can download the Everyday Educator here.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616), Spanish novelist (Don Quixote and others), playwright, and poet was born at Alcalá de Henares in 1547. The attempts of biographers to provide him with an illustrious genealogy are...
In this brief article, scholar, editor, and translator Luis Sundkvist explores the life of noted Russian author Ivan Turgenev and considers ways in which his life and work intersected with the Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Biography...
Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. She won several awards for her poetry in her lifetime, and her poems are frequently anthologized. Poetry (1919) by Marianne...
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is seen as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. His works include several collections of poetry, one novel, and...
Leo Tolstoy (or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy), 1828-1910, was a Russian novelist and social reformer, born on the 9th of September (August 28) 1828, in the home of his fathers – Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula...
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