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1 July 2023 – Salmon Ladders (for people), Gnats and Sleepwalking
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Book Review: The Treasure Seekers
by E. Nesbit I came across this author, E. Nesbit, on a list of suggested reading by the woman who designed the...
Orthodoxy
by GK Chesterton This book was excellent. It was definitely the most approachable of all of Chesterton's nonfiction that I've read so far. It had good flow, was well-organized, had solid arguments and it was very funny. I had so many of the same questions, problems...
A Gargoyle Gecko Gothic Cathedral and the Discovery of a Dawn of a New Industrial Revolution
After our Gargoyle Gecko, Mabel, joined the family, it became a top priority to make her tank as Gothic as possible. Afterall, you can’t have a breed of gecko named for the...
Happy Feast of the Assumption of Mary!
And don't forget that today starts the Saint Michael's Lent. To daily have your thoughts assumed heavenwards, purchase this block here.
From Orthodoxy
"... an orgy of everything that was bad."
Father Marquette and the Great Rivers
by August Derleth In school we are studying the further exploration into North America. Father Marquette was a Jesuit French priest who had dreamt from childhood to bring God to the Indians in the New World. His dream came true and he was sent on mission to New...
The Leaven
Matt 13: 33, Luke 13: 20-21 He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.” Completely Non-Expert Interpretation: To put in terms a non-homemade bread baking...
From Orthodoxy-
"...room for good things to run wild."
The Homeschool Discernment: With and Without the Rainbows and Sunshine
A friend was trying to discern whether or not to start homeschooling her children and she asked for my thoughts on my experiences as a...
Memento Mori
“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. “ – the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor In Flanner O’Connor’s...