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How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of...
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...
Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt
Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per...
Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday Are a Perfect Couple
Valentine’s Day is on Ash Wednesday this year. At first thought, they seem like an unlikely pairing. Valentine’s Day is a day...
10 February 2024 – Bananas, Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn, the Kingbird, and an Earthworm Dissection
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...
What if New Year’s Resolutions Are a Misinterpreted Yearning to Participate in the Penitential Season Known as Lent?
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...
2 February 2024 – Grant’s Real Name, the Definition of ACME and Why Do We Yawn?
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...
Book Review: The Drama of Atheist Humanism
by Henri De Lubac Henri de Lubac wrote most of this book while living in...
27 January 2024 – The Holcombe Flag, the Tongue of the Woodpecker, the Squirrel’s Dirty Secret
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things...
Book Review: A Lion to Guard Us
by Clyde Robert Bulla Amanda, about 10 I think, and her two younger siblings (8 and 6) were living in the house of their mother’s...
Book Review: The Family Under the Bridge
by Natalie Savage Carlson I was hoping for a lovely little story for our...
Book Review: The True Meaning of Christmas
by Michael Barber I’m not an expert at Christmas, but it’s a holiday that...