by Spencer Mason | Nov 2, 2016 | Fall 2016, GREENHOUSE
2 Nov 2016 When I arrived at the legislative building early on a Tuesday morning, I hadn’t known anything of what I was going to do, but when one is suited up and going into an important place, it is hard to feel like anything could be wrong. Even though I had...
by Spencer Mason | Oct 12, 2016 | Fall 2016, GREENHOUSE
12 Oct 2016 It’s 2016, and it is happening again. It has social media abuzz. Everyday people, as well as celebrities and international leaders, voice their opinions. It has actually been making the news headlines for more than a year. It is that once-every-four-year...
by Spencer Mason | Dec 23, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
23 Dec 2015 In 1999, we made the single best decision of our homeschooling experience. We decided to get involved in competitive speech and debate. With an open slot in my schedule at the NCHE conference and on a whim, I walked into Teresa Moon’s workshop on...
by Spencer Mason | Oct 14, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
14 Oct 2015 In our homeschools, one of the great things we have is flexibility. We can engage in experiences that are sometimes hard within a traditional system because they require being away from the school. Thus, homeschoolers are frequently field-tripping and...
by Spencer Mason | Apr 8, 2015 | GREENHOUSE
8 Apr 2015 Go Fish! is a children’s card game I played a couple times in my youth, around sixty years ago. For my father, Go Fish was not a card game, it was an adventure. He loved to fish. When I was a boy, he went fishing whenever he could. He took me fishing one...