Author Beatrix Potter, an Artist First

Author Beatrix Potter, an Artist First

Beatrix Potter’s lovely farmhouse, Hill Top, taught me how this children’s author worked. As an artist first, she would sketch scenes in her house and garden. And then she would add her little animal characters, so carefully drawn and lifelike, and make...
Patrick Brontë, Homeschool Dad

Patrick Brontë, Homeschool Dad

The dining room where novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë studied and later honed their craft together. I didn’t know Patrick Brontë, father of famous authors Charlotte, Emily and Anne, was a homeschool hero. But that’s what I figured out on a...
Time travel, Doctor Who, and Alchemists

Time travel, Doctor Who, and Alchemists

While in England, I did a bit of time traveling. Those stone circles are just full of space-time energy, you know, and I was able to take advantage of that. See? Doctor Who must have been following me. His time-traveling telephone call box (painted red instead of blue...