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Melanie Bettinelli

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Melanie Bettinelli is a native Texan who has come to love the four seasons in her husband's native New England. She is a stay-at-home mother of five homeschooled children.

Melanie started reading about homeschooling and writing about her research on her blog, The Wine Dark Sea, even before the birth of her first child, and considered herself a homeschooler long before her children were old enough for formal schooling.

Melanie has a degree in English from the University of Dallas and an MA in Literature and Irish Studies from Boston College. She has tutored students in writing and in Latin and has taught writing, literature and humanities classes at Salem State College and Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts, but now is contented to stay at home with her daughters... the most important job in the world and much more challenging and fulfilling than teaching college students.

In addition to her blog, The Wine Dark Sea, Melanie was also a contributor to First Heralds, a blog about helping toddlers and preschoolers learn about the Catholic faith.

She and her husband, Dom, also have a podcast, "Raising the Betts"; you can find episodes at Dom's blog, Bettnet.com. Dominic Bettinelli is the CEO of StarQuest Media, whose mission is to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture.

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