Homeschooling requires a lot of energy. Unfortunately, I’m exhausted. Working as a college instructor and on other projects, along with homeschooling both daughters, leaves me…
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Big Sur has been one of the best upgrades to Apple’s operating system family in several years. After Catalina, it’s nice to upgrade and actually…
Dear Apple (and Microsoft), please ship operating systems only when they are finished and a bit polished. Stop shipping half-baked, inconsistent, incomplete operating systems just…
Our daughters are now on track, having caught up with both Common Core and Texas standards as of this week. Understand that such standards are…
Screen time wasn’t working well for our daughters, so we’ve migrated back to worksheets, composition books, and physical textbooks for the majority of their school…
Our daughters and I assembled a simple Windows computer for them to use for homeschooling tasks. We haven’t had a Windows system for many years…
Grade-level expectations and academic achievement took a backseat to “treading water” after March 13, 2020, according to my colleagues in K12. It was hard enough…
During the summers, we maintain “summer enrichment” activities for our daughters. With schooling forced online in March 2020, we’ve done all we can to simply…
We’re officially a homeschooling household. We notified the school district, in writing and via email, and we enrolled in a homeschooling curriculum. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Upgrading to macOS Catalina, 10.15.4, has been a nightmarish experience on my 2018 MacBook Pro. My wife’s iMac upgraded without serious problems. Everything seems to…