SS #156: Wonderfully Inconvenient Motherhood (with JoAnn Hallum!!)
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is JoAnn Hallum! JoAnn is a first-generation homeschooler from the Central Valley of California who has been teaching her four boys for about 10 years. She loves to read and to tell people at parties they should read Charles Dickens. With a fine art degree in Printmaking, she discovered she loved writing when she became a stay-at-home mom. She now writes on Substack and Instagram, and sometimes Commonplace Quarterly. Her extracurricular activities include serving on the board for her local Youth Orchestra, hosting a local Nature Club, and hunting for used books. You can find her as funnyostrich on Instagram or under her name, JoAnnHallum, on Substack.
In today's conversation, Abby, JoAnn, and Brandy talk about the inconveniences of mothering teenagers and what a wonderful blessing it is. You're going to love this conversation!
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If you've considered upgrading your Sistership membership from FREE to Sophie level, now is the time! Our annual spring training is coming up in just a few weeks and you do NOT want to miss this! We are having Dr. Glenn Sunshine on to talk with us about the Resurrection of the Enchanted World. In session 1, Dr. Sunshine will talk about how the world was disenchanted –how we lost a supernatural worldview. In session 2, Dr. Sunshine will talk about how the world is being reenchanted (whether we like how that's happening or not) and what the Bible has to say about it all. Our annual Spring Training is always included in the Sophie level Sistership membership. Just go to scholesisters.com/join and sign up.
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| 0:00.0 | I do think that teenagers are sort of a word problem that we live with because you wake up in the morning and they're like, |
| 0:05.0 | I need two steel wools with no soap in them by 12 p.m. for my chemistry lab and then you go looking for them. |
| 0:12.5 | And it could be really annoying. |
| 0:14.8 | I didn't know where steel wool of the purest variety was. |
| 0:18.5 | So I had to call my dad. |
| 0:27.8 | Okay. variety was, so I had to call my dad. Welcome to Scalae Sisters, where we are cultivating the maximum number of thinking |
| 0:32.6 | moms we can. |
| 0:34.3 | This is the podcast for classical homeschooling mamas who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done. |
| 0:42.8 | Scalae Sisters discusses topics that matter to those of us who believe that educating ourselves through reading widely, thinking deeply, and applying faithfully, |
| 0:52.6 | equips us for the task of educating our children. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm your host, Brandy Ventzel. To get my free, almost weekly, mostly Charlotte Mason |
| 1:02.5 | newsletter, go to afterthoughtsblog.net slash subscribe and sign up. |
| 1:09.9 | My co-host today is Abby Wall. |
| 1:13.5 | Abby is basically the queen of the Skolle's sister ship. |
| 1:17.3 | Abby is a country-living farmer-rancher, a loving wife, and mom of five who homeschools |
| 1:22.6 | and reads whenever she can. |
| 1:26.3 | Our guest today is Joanne Hallam. |
| 1:29.3 | Joanne is a first-generation homeschooler from the Central Valley of California, |
| 1:33.3 | who has been teaching her four boys for about 10 years. |
| 1:37.3 | She loved to read and to tell people at parties they should read Charles Dickens. |
| 1:42.3 | With a fine art degree in printmaking, |
| 1:44.8 | she discovered she loved writing when she became a stay-at-home mom. |
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