The Children’s Mass

The Children’s Mass

by | Aug 7, 2024 | Blog, Essays

            There were a lot of babies and children at Mass.  Their sounds filled the air.  There was crying, laughing, burbling, shouting, loud whispering and the pitter-patter of little feet running to the bathroom or escaping the pew and running from their...
Book Review: The Treasure Seekers

Book Review: The Treasure Seekers

by | Jun 29, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews

by E. Nesbit I came across this author, E. Nesbit, on a list of suggested reading by the woman who designed the curriculum I’m using this year. She’s got excellent taste and my daughter, always devouring books, is in need of some new reading material. We’re using it...
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

by | Apr 25, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews

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...