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Applewood Doll Hospital Blog
14 May 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Francis and Clare
by Helen Walker Homan This was an engaging biography on Saint Francis, though not so much on Saint Clare –...
Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray In 13th century...
A Not-So-Great Defense of King David
I recently read through a discussion on social media about King David. The argument being made was the very notion that the church would...
The Absolutely Mortifying Mortification of Absolution
I committed a sin that was particularly embarrassing for...
10 Books that Screwed Up the World
And 5 Others That Didn't Help by Benajmin Wiker A Book Review: If you are a busy parent with oatmeal brain but would still like to learn about the...
A Monarch Infestation
In the course of busy, we were interrupted by unexpected visitors. At the most, we tend to only find three or four Monarch caterpillars on our...
Becoming a Haiku
Even as a child, I was fascinated with the concept of Haiku poetry. It seemed madness to me to take something as free-flowing and...
It’s Nice to be Back
I won’t go into all the reasons as to why I’d stayed away. Suffice it to say, the Church had always been my sanctuary from the world and...
Wild at Heart and The Way of the Wild Heart
by John Eldredge I read these books for research for a book I'm planning on writing. For my purposes, these books served well, though I probably...
Happy Feast Day of Saint Paul VI!
Born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, it was probably exciting to be made Pope based entirely on name signing time savings alone,...
God Designed the Foot, but Can He Be Trusted?
It is sometimes in the unexpected minutiae that we are surprised, once again, by the fact that God’s design works just fine without any human...