It’s been a minute. In December 2021, I was overwhelmed with responsibilities and adjusting to what “normal” would look like after the pandemic’s acute phase. I had a new baby and ailing parents and in-laws. I decided to set this blog aside for a bit and focus on other things, with the idea that I would wrap the posts from this blog under Well-Caffeinated Mom. It didn’t help that a blog transfer went sideways, and I lost a large chunk of my posts. I was frustrated, burnt out, and plain tired.
However, moving the blog never felt quite right to me. While I speak to a similar audience at Well-Caffeinated Mom, I haven’t targeted homeschoolers specifically. I struggled to figure out how to add homeschooling posts. Plus, it was a disservice because this blog serves an underserved niche—the secular homeschooling family. While there are many more options for those wanting to homeschool their children with resources free from religious bias, there is still a need for corners of the Internet for us to gather ideas and learn from one another.
With all that said, I’m back. I’m still homeschooling, and I’m excited to share some of my more recent thinking with everyone. We now have 4 kids I’m homeschooling instead of 3, and my oldest of the 5, with whom I began the whole homeschooling journey, got their MFA degree a couple of months ago – yay!
The kiddos I’m homeschooling will be in 5th, 3rd, 2nd, and preschool for the 2024-2025 school year (time sure does fly). I plan to share how I’ve been planning our homeschool, what curricula I’m using, and much more with readers. I do hope you will continue to come by and join me on this journey.
Published by Ronda Bowen
Hello there, and welcome to my page! I have been working as a full-time freelance writer and editor since 2008 when I decided that while I rather enjoyed philosophy, the Ph.D. program I was in was not a good fit for my life goals. Since then, I have published many papers and articles, started two blogs, worked as a senior editor for a magazine, served on the board of a start-up non-profit organization, and walked across fire.
I strongly believe that it is important to work to make the world a better place – one project at a time. I’ve worked with Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program to construct living quarters for those in need, written content for Stonewall Alliance, and edited the newsletter for my local natural foods cooperative. One of the blogs I founded, Activism My Way is dedicated to helping people get involved with causes they feel passionate about.
Although my academic background is in philosophy and social and political theory, my heart has always been in writing fiction and poetry. I have a novel in progress, and I am working on putting together a collection of short stories to share with readers. I also worked as part of a creative team on a project with a hip hop artist that involved world-building and creating an amazing back story to a concept album. I have worked with several authors to edit their novels (as well as dissertations, children’s books, journal articles, and non-fiction projects).
Non-fiction topics I have written about include pop culture and philosophy, project management, business startups and management, insurance, technology, and much more. I also have created web content for a wide variety of clients (ranging from gas station owners to hotels to lawyers), and I’ve had an opportunity to interview some amazing people (Michele May, Kevin Sorbo, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Mark Victor Hansen to name only a few). Needless to say, I love what I do.
I enjoy photography, and my subjects these days are usually my children as well as food, beverages, craft projects, and other such things for my blog, Wining Wife™. My favorite subjects are landscapes, nature (particularly clouds, flowers, and trees), and architecture.
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Just a Secular Homeschooler 