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Book Review: Bound for Oregon

Jean Van Leeuwen             This was based on the true story of a girl named Mary Ellen Todd who made the journey on the Oregon Trail from Arkansas to Oregon with her family.  (Her family was related to President Lincoln's wife.). This was a fascinating book.  There...
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3 June 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...
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Saint Cyril of Alexandria

"... and for cowards to become people of great courage."
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The Door in the Wall

by Marguerite De Angelo             This was a very readable book about a young boy named Robin who was the son of a nobleman.  His father was off at war and Robin, at the ripe old age of 10, was to...
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Father Marquette and the Great Rivers

Father Marquette and the Great Rivers

Aug 10, 2022 | ,

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...

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The Leaven

The Leaven

Aug 9, 2022 | ,

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...

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Memento Mori

Memento Mori

Jul 23, 2022 | ,

            “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...

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Jesus the Master Electrician

Jesus the Master Electrician

Jun 23, 2022 | ,

            Dr. Tim Gray of the Augustine Institute referred to the Ascension of Our Lord as “completing the circuit.”  I thought it an excellent metaphor and it set me to thinking it through...

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A Cold, Dead Heart and a Cold-Blooded Icon

A Cold, Dead Heart and a Cold-Blooded Icon

May 5, 2022 | ,

I am not an emotional person.  In fact, I think I am best described as having a cold, dead heart.  A heart of stone would also be apt.  I have always been this way.  I can’t remember a time when it was not difficult for me to...

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