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Reflections on the Psalms
I have to be honest: the book of Psalms has never been a favorite of mine. It’s been praised so often by others that I’m quite willing to accept that the fault is…
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The Wheel on the School
At last, we’ve finished The Wheel on the School. The chapters are longer than we’ve typically tackled in a read-aloud: 20-25 pages or so. This means bedtimes have slid a bit later, and…
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Wide Sargasso Sea
I was making supper one night last week when I heard a review of this novel on NPR. I’m not sure how I could have missed Wide Sargasso Sea till now. Written by…
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A story of courage
What would you do if your toddler stopped talking expressively, and began echoing your words? Or if he spent hours arranging his toys into intricate patterns only to stare at them? Or if…
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Routine Exercise vs. Real Desire
My Bible-reading has been progressing slowly through the Old Testament. It’s taken me about two years, but I’m at last up to Haggai, so it’s safe to say the end is in sight.…
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Reading matters
I’ve often wondered how much money we save by using the library so much. Apparently, its value to us is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000.00 a month! Of course we’d never spend…
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Nurturing the imagination
Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World is a memoir. It offers Beth Kephart’s experience as a mother cultivating in her child a love of reading, reflection, and imaginative vitality.…
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Dangerous Journey
“It seems just terrible that it doesn’t have a medal.” So said my 8-year-old, who prizes any book with an embossed gold medal on the cover, as we neared the end of this…
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For the Children’s Sake: I am, I can, I ought, I will
For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School, published in 1984, represents an argument to rethink educational priorities in light of the ideas of British educator Charlotte Mason (1842-1923). Written…