A Rhymer Writes

Image: Google images Here is a list of one word writing prompts to challenge you. My lone homeschool student will be using these for writing assignments over the next month or so. I am challenging you to create something using one of these themes as a creative writing project. Write a poem, short story, flash fiction (drabble), journal entry, blog post, etc. Leave me a comment and let me know which one you choose! Stay tuned for mine! fall bears Louisiana sparkle unknown love failure umbrella music beginning childhood soft worship dawn hungry patience

Photo courtesy of Google Images This week in our blogging class we had an assignment to write a post using the following prompt from  Bravewriter : You have one trip you can make in a time machine. Do you travel to a point in the past or the future? Explain your choice. I have been thinking of this assignment all week and I have decided it's almost impossible to decide. There are a lot of different thoughts I have about where I would go to in the past. I almost exclusively would choose to go to the past. That in and of itself makes me think about this more than I probably should considering it's not an actual choice I have to make. For instance, why wouldn't I want to go to a point in the future? Lots of people want to know what might happen but I don't! Mostly it's because I know that God has provided us with free will and that means that anything could change an event in the future. In God's wisdom he allows us (thankfully) to make the choices ...

Photo credit: Jackie Kern via Flickr We're homeschoolers, our little family. We've been homeschooling since Miss Ann Elliot was in second grade, Mr. Knightley was a kindergartener and Miss Marianne Dashwood was a toddler. Today Miss Elliot is 21 and finishing up her bachelor's in biblical studies, Mr. Knightley has graduated and is pursuing his goal of becoming a youth pastor, and Miss Dashwood is the lone student left in our little homeschool. It does seem like the beginning of the end of this journey these days. I can see the years ahead, post homeschooling, a little more clearly. Photo credit: Justin Kern via Flickr Actually, what I should say is that I can see those years after homeschooling at all. I can see them now. They're there in front of me, not that far down the road. And it causes me to reflect on the journey that homeschooling has been. The littlest things bring to mind the realization that we are in our lasts... our last student, our last...