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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;"
20 May 2023

20 May 2023

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

20 May 2023

14 May 2023

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

Happy Feast Day of Saint Andrew the Apostle

Happy Feast Day of Saint Andrew the Apostle

This is Saint Andrew, Saint Peter’s brother and one of Jesus’s apostles. He was the first called. And though he wasn’t renamed and had God’s church built on him, he didn’t let it come between he and Peter at the family Thanksgiving get together. In fact, he gave Peter...

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Happy Feast of Saint Cecilia (November 22)

Happy Feast of Saint Cecilia (November 22)

This is my confirmation saint. Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians.  I was in band and under the impression that I would graduate and play in a symphony even though I wasn’t even first chair in a high school band class.  If only I’d known back then...

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A Not-So-Great Defense of King David

A Not-So-Great Defense of King David

I recently read through a discussion on social media about King David.  The argument being made was the very notion that the church would hold King David in any kind of esteem proved just how anti-woman and patriarchal the church is.  He used his...

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10 Books that Screwed Up the World

10 Books that Screwed Up the World

And 5 Others That Didn't Help by Benajmin Wiker A Book Review: If you are a busy parent with oatmeal brain but would still like to learn about the string of various philosophies that have gotten us to where we are today in the world, this is the book for you. Dr....

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A Monarch Infestation

A Monarch Infestation

In the course of busy, we were interrupted by unexpected visitors. At the most, we tend to only find three or four Monarch caterpillars on our milkweed. This year, there were close to twenty. And a month early, to boot! They ate all but four branches of my milkweed...

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Becoming a Haiku

Becoming a Haiku

Even as a child, I was fascinated with the concept of Haiku poetry.  It seemed madness to me to take something as free-flowing and abandoned as writing from the heart and applying such Draconian restrictions to it as 5 syllables followed by 7 syllables and...

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