by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Jun 23, 2015 | Telos Forum
Nature’s Path Organic Foods is sponsoring a fabulous, $15,000.00 grant competition for urban farms and we need your vote to win. Voting and selection are based on responses to three (3) simple and easy application inquiries: (1) Who are you? (2) What are you doing or...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Jun 18, 2015 | Telos Forum
Evil, racism and systems of white supremacy unaddressed will continue to sink and surge and pulsate into the veins of our society leaving inevitable death in its wake. Sadly this, the shock of the murders of our dear ones, our brothers and sisters in Christ-in church,...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Jun 16, 2015 | Telos Forum
My Rant… Yes, I’m angry…again…and given what folks so freely share across social media platforms there’s no rational reason for me as a 60 year-old black woman to feel squeamish about acknowledging my anger. My social media feeds have been flooded with...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | May 31, 2015 | Telos Forum
Like the song says “School’s out for summer!” but I suspect everybody’s not completely ready;) I’ve gotten some requests for productive summer activities and I’ll be posting ideas over the next few days and weeks-along with garden “stuff” but first a word or two about...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | May 20, 2015 | Telos Forum
CMadison loved Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style and gifted copies to our sons as homeschooling “treats”. Me, not so much…should that last period have been placed inside or outside of the quotation marks and does anyone really care?! But lately I’ve...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Feb 4, 2015 | Telos Forum
Today I was asked for one piece of advice for new homeschoolers. Granted CMadison and I did homeschool, with both quantitative and qualitative success, but it feels like a lifetime ago. I had to really stop and think about the question of advice. After all our sons...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Feb 4, 2015 | Telos Forum
When CMadison and I began homeschooling Charles, Damon and Evan back in 1991 we developed our own curriculum. We hired African and African-American graduate students at The Ohio State University (2 young African-American women, 1 young African-American man and 4...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Jan 30, 2015 | Telos Forum
Some of the leading causes of death are preventable diseases directly related to diet and nutrition, specifically heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. Developing a self-sustaining, reproducible urban garden and improving access to clean, affordable, organic...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Jan 23, 2015 | Telos Forum
This is not a homeschooling site and it doesn’t need to be because there are plenty of excellent sources elsewhere. But sometimes people send me questions and the good ones just need to be shared. So, from time-to-time I post questions and my responses here...
by Paula Penn-Nabrit | Jan 20, 2015 | Telos Forum
Some of my family went to see Selma on MLK Day and we ran into some friends while we were there. That’s my Mommy with the head full of snow-white hair sitting with two of her dear friends, Sis. Nevels and Sis. Lyons. Selma is a powerful film, but it is...
