by Maggie Robertson | Jan 15, 2015 | Athens County, Beyond Marietta
This winter if we’re sitting in the same place that we were a year ago, doing the same things, holding the same opinions, and making the same mistakes, then we have missed countless opportunities to grow, adapt, and evolve into the person we are destined to be....
by Maggie Robertson | Jan 7, 2015 | Athens County, Beyond Marietta
Athens, Ohio is a city built around Ohio University. Since the 1800s, the town has been growing in echo to the college. I landed here my final year of college and have chosen to linger a little longer. The local culture here is captivating to a young twenty-something...
by Donna Vail | Dec 29, 2014 | Beyond Marietta, Homeschool
Usually when I meet someone for the first time and they learn that I’m a homeschooling mother of six children they often say something like, “Oh, I could never do that with my two children, I don’t know how you do it all with six children.” This is before they find...
by Christiane Marshall | Dec 25, 2014 | Beyond Marietta, Marietta, Religious Life
People who work in nursing homes can tell you how few visitors some residents get, even on holidays. Maybe they have no people left to visit them. Maybe their families live far away. In your holiday activities, maybe you can fit in a visit? Ask at the desk who might...
by Donna Vail | Dec 15, 2014 | Beyond Marietta
In order to make real learning happen we need to awaken the New Educators Mind. You are embarking on a journey to live your whole life and with a love of learning. For most of us, a love of learning is a foreign concept only because of the relationship to the past...
by Donna Vail | Dec 1, 2014 | Beyond Marietta
It’s as simple as this: You can’t expect your children to love learning if you don’t love to learn. If you don’t have a joy in learning it will be hard for them to have a joy in learning. Children learn what they live so as parents we must ask ourselves how we are...
