You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number 43.

Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama,

who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow.

Scalae Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches

of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all

done. I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. You can find find me an afterthought. That's my main blog.

And also teaching reading with Bob Books, which is where I keep my line of printable phonics lessons.

You can hear more from me on my other podcast, Aftercast.

My co-host today is Misty Winkler.

Misty is a second generation homeschooler with five kids and too many projects.

She writes about practical classical homeschooling and organizing attitudes at Simply

convivial.

We'd just like to briefly apologize for the sound issues.

There's a little bit of clicking and skipping.

So a word of advice, if you usually listen to this show on

one and a half speed or faster, you're going to want to slow it down and listen at regular speed.

This episode is sponsored by Learning Well. Did you miss out on our September Learning Well retreat?

Not to worry. The replay package is now available. You can plan your own individual

retreat, or you can still do a group retreat event. For more details, go to scalaeysisters.com

slash learn. Our guest today is Martin Cothran. Mr. Cothran is the director of the Classical Latin School Association and the editor of Memoria Press' Classical Teacher Magazine. He is the author of several books for private and homeschools, including Memoria Press' traditional logic, material logic, and classical rhetoric programs, as well as

lingua biblica, Old Testament stories in Latin. Now that his children are grown, Martin spends

a good amount of time reading aloud to his wife. In addition to all of this, Martin is known

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