My friend Rene

This is my first "shout out" sort of 'blog entry and it goes to my friend Rene. She's a fellow homeschooler who feels things deeply and lives life fully. She's teaching two of my children how to sing and they're doing great under her tutelage.

I like Rene because she thinks about things. She reads, she writes, she reaches out to others and tries to share with them what she has learned so that just maybe they won't have to reinvent the wheel for themselves.

But mostly I like Rene because she works hard to practice what she preaches and that's a rare quality these days.

Thanks, Rene, for helping me to keep things real without drowning in the cynicism that would surely take me down otherwise.