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Pulling Myself Out of a Funk to Get Back into the Race That is Lent

            I had some sort of respiratory virus at the beginning of Lent that knocked me down for a week and then kept me lethargic and coughing for another week.  I’m glad it happened during Lent...

March 25, 2023

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...

From Charles Dickens

"... ignore them as children ignore them."

From The Common Man

"...all evil began with some attempt at superiority;"
December 10, 2022

December 10, 2022

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...

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Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!

This feast day is to commemorate the fact that God made Mary without original sin in order to have for himself a little sinless home in his Mother's womb. Some balk at this teaching but it has always made perfect sense to me for a couple of reasons. God made Adam and...

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