Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:20:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/ 32 32 89931359 Reflections of an Honorable Man: Things My Parents Taught Me https://doingwhatmatters.com/reflections-of-an-honorable-man-things-my-parents-taught-me/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/reflections-of-an-honorable-man-things-my-parents-taught-me/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:05:32 +0000 https://doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4468 It’s almost the end of the year and I’m looking back at all that has happened. Like most years, 2023 brought a mixed bag of events — some happy and some sad. It seemed as though we attended more memorial...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/learning-through-freedom-to-adventure/feed/ 0 4338 Is College Still Worth It? https://doingwhatmatters.com/is-college-worth-it/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/is-college-worth-it/#respond Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:45:44 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4235 As you probably know if you’ve read very far in my blog, I love to learn. I love reading, writing, and learning, and have spent many years of my life doing just that. Homeschooling my boys was an extension of...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/is-college-worth-it/feed/ 0 4235 Old Year Gratitude; New Year Hope https://doingwhatmatters.com/old-year-gratitude-new-year-hope/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/old-year-gratitude-new-year-hope/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:55:10 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4171 This year — 2020 — is almost over. It’s been quite a year! Decades from now, I’m guessing that people will remember it most as the Year of the Pandemic; the year that Covid-19 changed the way that many of...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/old-year-gratitude-new-year-hope/feed/ 1 4171 Peacemaking and Mending Breaches https://doingwhatmatters.com/remembering-what-matters/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/remembering-what-matters/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:33:32 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4072 Remembering Things that Matter I rarely post anything about current events, but once in awhile, it happens. I’ve been thinking about peacemaking, mending breaches, and restoring what has been broken. For issues that have existed for years or decades or...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/remembering-what-matters/feed/ 1 4072 Homeschool 101: Charlotte Mason Style https://doingwhatmatters.com/homeschool-101/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/homeschool-101/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:28:29 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4021 In which a student of Charlotte Mason (British educator 1842-1923) imperfectly outlines first steps of the Mason method with an eye toward hope and encouragement to new home educators. By: Anya Campbell  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ampc7/ Ideas on How to Begin I...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/homeschool-101/feed/ 1 4021 What To Do When Everything Changes https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-to-do-when-everything-changes/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-to-do-when-everything-changes/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:26:39 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3994 After the first of the Great Homeschool Conventions ended early, I drove home from Texas to Virginia. While I listened to audiobooks most of the way, there was plenty of time to think about what the next few weeks or...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/year-end-review-new-year-planning/feed/ 0 3857 The Lawgivers: A Review of a New Plutarch Translation https://doingwhatmatters.com/lawgivers-review-plutarch-hicks/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/lawgivers-review-plutarch-hicks/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:54:45 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3807 Of all Charlotte Mason’s recommendations, I found her advice to read Plutarch with children one of the least appealing. I enjoy old books and love learning, but somehow, it seemed especially daunting to fit in Plutarch along with everything else....

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/lawgivers-review-plutarch-hicks/feed/ 1 3807 What Grade Are You In? A Bit of Common Sense from Understood Betsy https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:13:09 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3746 Summer is winding down in the northern hemisphere and schoolbooks are being dusted off and swimsuits put away. I always enjoyed getting back into an orderly and predictable schedule (as orderly and predictable as was possible in a household with...

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