Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday Are a Perfect Couple

by applewooddollhospital | Feb 14, 2024 | Blog, Essays

Valentine’s Day is on Ash Wednesday this year.  At first thought, they seem like an unlikely pairing.  Valentine’s Day is a day reminiscent of romance and love.  It’s filled with roses, chocolates, lavish dinners, teddy...

10 February 2024 – Bananas, Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn, the Kingbird, and an Earthworm Dissection

by applewooddollhospital | Feb 9, 2024 | Blog, Saturday Fairy Eggs

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...

What if New Year’s Resolutions Are a Misinterpreted Yearning to Participate in the Penitential Season Known as Lent?

by applewooddollhospital | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog, Essays

I am happy to say that my area has had a milder than average winter.  Most of the highs have been near 40 degrees which has afforded me the luxury of continuing my daily run outside instead of being forced to move it to the monotony of my treadmill in our...

2 February 2024 – Grant’s Real Name, the Definition of ACME and Why Do We Yawn?

by applewooddollhospital | Feb 2, 2024 | Blog, Saturday Fairy Eggs

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...

Book Review: The Drama of Atheist Humanism

by applewooddollhospital | Feb 1, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews

by Henri De Lubac             Henri de Lubac wrote most of this book while living in Nazi occupied France.  It traces the roots of the “New Atheism” back to its beginnings starting as far back as...