It's that time of year! The deadline for high school seniors to submit final decisions about which college they'll be attending in the fall is this month.  However, if you have a rising junior you might find this guest post helpful.  Louise Baker writes about online schools for Zen College Life. She graciously offered to gather information on colleges […]

The film “Race to Nowhere“  tackles the topic of over-scheduled, stressed out school-age children and their parents eager to secure a spot not only in a college, but a 'good' college. We need some balance. The scale is tipping more and more in one direction, and “Race” is the counterbalance demonstrating the need to re-center […]

It's a topsy turvy kind of day around here trying to pack and organize the kid's stuff (on the last day, of course) before departing to drop him off at college. We set up Skype, tested it, and he even had me talk to some of his friends on the laptop. It's all pretty cool.
But still… It's moving out day.

Our son's graduation is finally behind us!  It was a TWO week-long celebration full of formal award presentations, sports banquets, mass, blessings, parties and lots and lots of family. Our first-born is the fifth in our family to go through the pomp and circumstance of graduating from high school, but the second one going on […]