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Book Review: The Drama of Atheist Humanism
by Henri De Lubac Henri de Lubac wrote most of...
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...
A Sourdough Loaf of Lies and a Journey Towards Food Independence
My grocery store made a bold claim. Printed on the sticker of several loaves in the bakery were the words “Tastes just like San Francisco Sourdough Bread”. For a few years,...
Charles Dickens
by GK Chesterton This was a near perfect biography. If I were Charles Dickens, I would have been waiting for Chesterton at the gates of heaven to hug the stuffing out of him for writing...
8 April 2023 (Holy Saturday)
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...
The Magna Charta
by James Daugherty This was a well-written book especially considering that with the material it covered, it could have been a snoozefest. Instead, the story of the Magna Charta was...
What If Staring at People While They Sleep Isn’t Necessarily Psychopathic but a Misinterpreted Yearning to See the Sleeper as They Will Look When Perfected?
I share a common interest with psychopaths: watching people sleep. Though, I can’t be sure our motives for watching people are the same. And I don’t sneak into other people’s...
April 1, 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...
Book Review: King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
by Roger Lancelyn Green This book hits the ground running and doesn’t let up until the last word. The reader is almost out of breath by the end, it has so much going on. I...
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...