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Fending Off Cougars in the Age of Divorce

            I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I pretend to be a writer so I...

How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?

            One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in...

25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird

My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen it on SpongeBob so it must be...

Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt

            Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per se, but lately, I can...

22 April 2023

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...

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15 April 2023

Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...

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The Sower

The Sower

Matthew 13:1-9, Mark 4: 1-9, Luke 8: 4-8 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.  And great crowds gathered about him, so...

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The Builders

The Builders

Matt 7: 24-27  Luke 6: 47-49 “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; ...

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The Parables Project Introduction

The Parables Project Introduction

One Easter, I bought a children's book of the New Testament parables to read aloud to the kids.  All went well until they started asking questions. ...

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Don’t Look at Me, Little Baby!

Don’t Look at Me, Little Baby!

When my baby looks at me with a look of absolute love and adoration it can, at times, make me a little uncomfortable.   I say to her, “Now calm down...

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A Second Grade Interpretation

A Second Grade Interpretation

One of #3's assignments last week was to illustrate the poem he'd memorized called 'The Owl and the Pussycat'. It was a love story that started with...

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