Maya Marie

Prologue: What Homeschooling is . . . What Homeschooling Isn't . . .

Maya Marie
Prologue: What Homeschooling is . . . What Homeschooling Isn't . . .

Home-schooling is education at home.

Home-schooling is not weird.

Home-schooling is joyful.

Home-schooling is not initiated haphazardly at the onset of a pandemic due to ill-prepared, greedy politicians.

Home-schooling is innately Black and Indigenous.

Home-schooling is not easy.

Home-schooling is defined by the family unit doing the home-schooling.

Home-schooling is not for religious indoctrination.

Home-schooling is nurturing for the child and parent.

Home-schooling is not the public school system at home, in front of a computer all day.

Home-schooling is taking a nap as needed.

Home-schooling is not what you see in the mainstream media (e.g. Mean Girls, On My Block, etc.).

Home-schooling is community development.

Home-schooling is.

Home-schooling is.

Home-schooling is.

Wipe that confused look off your face, because home-schooling is me.

Me selling jewelry at the farmer’s market at the age of 10. Key-chains $1, bracelets $2-$3.

Me selling jewelry at the farmer’s market at the age of 10. Key-chains $1, bracelets $2-$3.

Gallery #3: An Unintentionally Intentional Education
Chapter 3.5: Butter Crackers
Chapter 3.5: Butter Crackers

Buttery, flaky, and able to go with literally anything that’s spreadable or dippable. These are the reasons my love for butter crackers runs so deep.

Chapter 3: Mary Stansberry’s Chili with Butter Crackers
Chapter 3: Mary Stansberry’s Chili with Butter Crackers

A big batch of chili is, on the surface, a simple lunch I can make on the weekend. However, once I reheat it during my lunch at the farm, and sit down, for a moment I’m transported.

Chapter 2.75: Corn Chips
Chapter 2.75: Corn Chips

Although our attempts at making pupusas were hit and miss (leave it to the pros from South and Central America) we did get the hang of making our own corn chips to accompany lunch-time sandwich situations.

Chapter 2.5: Tomato Soup
Chapter 2.5: Tomato Soup
Chapter 2: Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup with Corn Chips
Chapter 2: Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup with Corn Chips

As a little girl I’d have been delighted to have known that a decade or so later I’d be able to enjoy the rain in New York just like Momo. After all my dad was always talking about New York, it seemed like the place to be.

Chapter 1: Oodles and Noodles
Chapter 1: Oodles and Noodles

Fond, but increasingly blurry, lunchtime memories surround oodles and noodles. Intense sibling debates about pop culture brewed, secrets were shared, loose pacts were made, sibling produced tv shows were performed table-side, and sometimes it was just nice to have food in the house and we were too busy eating to talk.

Introduction
Introduction

Freedom looks different for different people. For my parents freedom seemed to look like teaching their kids at home. Free to offer their kids a combination of curricula to suit each of our differing ages and learning needs and desires.

Prologue: What Homeschooling is . . . What Homeschooling Isn't . . .
Prologue: What Homeschooling is . . . What Homeschooling Isn't . . .