Everything I read about blogging says I should have an “About Me” page. So this is it.

I am a lot of things: Christian, wife, mother, aspiring writer. I am reflective by nature and tend to agree with Socrates when he says,

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I like to know what people think and why they think it. I am curious about those “formative experiences” which so often prejudice us toward or away from certain ideas.

One of my education courses in college required us to take a battery of personality tests. I scored heavily as a “right brained, global thinker.” In fact, the instructor said she had never seen anyone with results quite like mine. The only points I scored toward the left side were those associated with language. Running down the common traits of my fellow global thinkers, most of them apply to me. Except wanting to work in groups. I hate working in groups because it has always meant I do all the work. And I’m not particularly emotional.

I love history. In fact, I’ve never been much into fiction and there are probably only a handful of fiction books which have had much of an effect on me. All of them had at their core a strong philosophy of being: Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Image of Josephine by Booth Tarkington, Night by Eli Wiesel and Der Stellvertreter (The Representative) by Rolf Hochhuth. I particularly find interesting the history of ideas. They tell us a lot about where we are today. As King Solomon says in Ecclesiastes,

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9

I like things to be coherent and connected. I like to explore the relationships between ideas, events and the people involved. The main ideas which I explore here are the relationship between the individual and the state and between the family and society. Education, and particularly homeschooling, stands at the center of that. I consider this an education blog, but education is a broad topic encompassing all of what makes us who we are.

Like most moms, I don’t have all that many pictures of myself and the ones I do have aren’t very good. Here is the best one I could find:

So, that’s me in a blog entry. Any questions?