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Contentment
Richard Swenson’s Contentment: The Secret to a Lasting Calm was recommended on a blog several years ago (I don’t remember which one!). I started reading it then, but it didn’t “take.” Recently I…
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Epic
I’ve had a great experience reading this little book by John Eldredge aloud to my two daughters. Epic: The Story God is Telling and the Role that is Yours to Play takes up…
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My Name is Asher Lev
I’m not sure when I last read Chaim Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev. It is filed under “all time favorites” in my internal library. Thinking it might be an interesting read for…
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Two stage growth
We’ve had a two-year journey between churches, and now it appears we’ve settled. We like our landing place and have a number of acquaintances there. The kids are enjoying the fellowship and growth…
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Good Friday
To look at the Crucifix and then to look at our own hearts; to test by the cross the quality of our love — if we do that honestly and unflinchingly we don’t…
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Homeschool Vital Signs: A 9-Year Checkup
There is great value in not being able to – not being able to afford stuff, to having to wait and work really hard to get something. (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney) This quotation has…
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Bartleby the Scrivener
Have you ever read this? Herman Melville’s enigmatic tale about a law scrivener who comes to an office on Wall Street was part of an American lit class in college. I loved this…
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Foundations and Faultlines
I don’t watch many movies, but amazingly, this week I have watched two. The first, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), was recommended for the week in my daughter’s government curriculum. The second,…
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Orbiting Jupiter
I read Gary D. Schmidt’s new middle grade novel in a day. Learning about the book from Sherry’s review, I was interested — even though she had made it clear that it was…
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You Have a Brain
We bought Ben Carson’s You Have a Brain: A Teen’s Guide to T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G. for our kids. We knew a bit of his life story; someone had given us America the Beautiful a…
