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To Know Christ Jesus
by FJ Sheed I read this book for...
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 –...
S(k)in Cancer
I started the new year with a melanoma diagnosis. It was a very small tumor that had not spread. The treatment was to just cut out all...
The Bible is Not Boring – Change My Mind.
The Bible is a ginormous volume made up of 73 different books spanning thousands of years following generations of people. Are there boring...
Reading the Bible in a Year
For Realsies This Time I thought I’d try Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year podcast. This is not the first time I’ve tried the ole “Read the...
A Facebook Exit and Reality, a Re-Introduction
My Facebook Exit had been a long time coming. The platform had started to make me uneasy a couple of years ago and not just because of the...
Saint Ambrose
December 7 Happy Saint Ambrose day! There's a legend that when Saint Ambrose was a baby, a swarm of bees landed on his face and then left the baby...
My Journey Not to Get a New Puppy
The journey began when our local animal shelter posted a dog for adoption. She was a Great Pyrenees mixed with Anatolian shepherd. She...
What if the urge to go out drinking is actually a misinterpreted yearning for children?
Now hear me out. Whenever a new psychological theory is introduced, it always initially sounds preposterous. Children and drunk people...
Rebuilding the Temple to Make it More Ascetically Pleasing
“I want to start working out,” I told my husband. “I’ve been reading up on asceticism and the desert monks. I definitely think a little...
Implementing a Daily Schedule for Peace in Your Homeschool Day
I often found myself lying in bed at night in my messy house, with the kids’ school half done, meals that were late (and a few only qualified as...