Apologia Blog

By Sharon Watson You assigned. They whined. You cajoled, suggested ideas for topics, and drove them to the library for their research. They rejected your clever ideas and drove you crazy. And then, the impossible happened. They actually handed in their papers. In shock, you asked yourself, “Now what?” You are more than capable of [...]

  “Why are you visiting Prince Edward Island?” the flight attendant shouted over the plane’s engine. My mom, sister, and I were scrunched into our seats across from the attendant as we flew on a tiny puddle-jumper plane to Charlottetown. I grinned ear to ear with delight as I explained that we girls were fulfilling a [...]

  I was a bone-weary traveler as I pulled up to the bed and breakfast inn in Eastern Tennessee one evening last spring. I traveled there for a meeting at Bryan College and to hear Pam Tebow speak at a crisis pregnancy center. (For those of you who might not know, Pam homeschooled all five [...]

  Writing is hard. At least, that’s what students tell me.  Writing makes their hands hurt. They don’t know where to begin. They don’t know how to construct paragraphs. If they’re not interested in the topic, they can’t think of anything to write anyway. The list goes on and on and is pretty much the same [...]