by Thomas More I wasn’t sure what to expect...
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17 February 2024 – Why Catholics Can Have Fish on Friday, Why Ice Floats on Water, the Savage Habits of Blue Jays
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday Are a Perfect Couple
Valentine’s Day is on Ash Wednesday this year. At first thought, they seem like an unlikely...
The Secret Garden
by Francis Hodgson Burnett What an excellent book! A bossy, spoiled girl named Mary is living in India until she is sent to Yorkshire England to live with her very rich uncle in his mansion when her parents die in an epidemic. The whole place...
Accused of Being a ‘Becky’ While Minding My Own Business
I pass by the local middle school on my run route every morning. Yesterday, I ran by as they were doing some sort of drill outside. Several of the middle school males took a break from telling each other doody jokes and giving each other dutch...
22 April 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...
Away Goes Sally
by Elizabeth Coatsworth Sally is a young orphan that lives with her aunts and uncle in late 18th-century Massachusetts. After receiving a letter from their cousin that had settled in...
15 April 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...
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...