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American Cowboy Chaps: Then and Now

By Charlotte Raby For everyone who loves western romances, no cowboy fantasy would be complete without envisioning (at least once) our heroic wrangler in full Wild West regalia, which, of course, always includes chaps. Many sources consider the historical beginning of chaps to have started with Mexican Vaqueros in the 1800’s, but really, they wereContinue reading “American Cowboy Chaps: Then and Now”

My Homeschooling Roots

This was originally published in 2008 on a homeschooling blog. I have been a die-hard homeschooling mom for many years. Yet I don’t know how the initial urge came upon me or how it settled into conviction nearly ten years before my children were born. I had accredited it to a friend who said, whileContinue reading “My Homeschooling Roots”