About Me

I am a homemaker, writer, editor, and poet. I teach three of my eight children at home on a little farm-to-be just north of Lawrence, Kansas. I have taught classes in Business Management, Drama, Rhetoric and Writing; led workshops on Holy Leisure, Home Schooling, Writing for Good Causes, Better Thesis Papers, Personality Styles, and C.S. Lewis’ Preface to Paradise Lost; spoken for women’s retreats, Home-School conferences, C.S. Lewis classes, conferences and study groups; and offered lectures on the Life and Works of Dorothy Sayers, Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, and poetry. I have published work in Envoy, Canticle, Hereditas, Catholic Exchange and newspaper editorial pages and am the author of Souls at Rest. 

I can now also say, tongue-in-cheek, that I am an ‘award winning’ poet – see my winning clerihews in the published poetry section! I have just begun writing a conversation parents can share with children about sacred geometry. It is available only to families in my local area, for now, as a loaned kit. Anyone can follow the developments at HolyGeometryProject.org.  I have a fun serial book at OurElizabeth.org.  All my projects are supported by the non-profit Joy Foundation, which can be viewed at JOYFound.org. On that site, you may obtain my booklet, "Life In Motion: Why I Love Driver Education Time With My Teens" for a donation of any amount. JOY supports the Catholic Library & Cultural Center of Kansas, the Northeast Kansas Chesterton Society, the Catholic Creatives Salon, the Living Poem Society, the Society for Timeless Pursuits, and much else that could use funds! I help non-profit organizations with strategic planning, missions statements, and overall improvement of operations.

Please consider me if you need a speaker, workshop designer, or editor. See also: CharlotteOstermann.wordpress.com

You are welcome to anything you find on my site, for personal use, and I would love to know how you're using it.  All published work is available for reprint - contact me.  In particular, I would like to offer all the Homemade Humor to any Catholic parish or diocesan papers whose readers would enjoy them, for a nominal fee - contact me.  I think of my writing as collaborating with others, rather than as selling a product, so I am most interested in sharing it where it can help another Catholic work. 

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