Homeschooling can be a bit sketchy

We had tickets to a jazz concert, and on a sunny day last week, we hopped on the bus heading to Harlem.

During the show, my son whispered to me, "Did you bring paper and pencil?"

He drew the bassist in the band and said, "I like this guy the best. He looks like he's having fun." I agreed.

A couple of days later, we took the bus to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and spent a rainy afternoon in the Ancient Near East section.

In the room from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, my kids each selected a bas relief for a quick sketch.

Then we huddled together under a broken umbrella at the bus stop, hoping the sketches kept dry inside my purse.