Wandering through the blogosphere this fine summer morning I find a couple of beautiful pieces on motherhood. First Danielle Bean muses about grace and 3 am wake-ups: During the next several minutes while my daughter discussed the daily habits of...
This is scary. Some excerpts: Confessions of a Genetic Outlaw. From time to time, we are all confronted with the disconnect between how we see ourselves and how others see us. I’ve always seen myself as a responsible, law-abiding citizen. I...
108 Still, the Christian faith is not a “religion of the book.” Christianity is the religion of the “Word” of God, “not a written and mute word, but incarnate and living.” (St. Bernard) If the Scriptures are not...
I just finished reading Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende. I picked it up the other day when I was dropping books off at the library. It was on the cart of books waiting to be shelved and caught my eye. I’ve read most of Allende’s books...
Tales from the Bonny Blue house has a great post on setting goals for homeschooling and the differences in homeschooling children with special needs. In the case of our homeschool and all of the others in the community which we belong the ultimate...
Dad called me the other day and sent me to NPR.org for a cool segment on how babies learn to speak. “We want to know how it is that we train our muscles, our tongues and lips to do that very precise mother-tongue kind of thing,” Kuhl...
Note: Please, for the sake of my sanity and to facilitate a reasonable discussion, read my previous 2 posts on Harry Potter as well as all of the linked posts by Scott Peterson as well as the comments threads on those posts before posting a comment...
A blogger is posting entries from The Diary of Samuel Pepys online: This site is a presentation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist who lived in London, England (read more about him). A new entry written by Pepys will...
Dom has a new blog about cooking and food called In the Kitchen with Bella to which I’ll also be contributing, I hope with some frequency. We’re trying to recruit my sister to post there as well. We’re both passionate about food...
Today was Bella’s two-month checkup, which meant, among other things, that she received three shots in her legs, poor thing. She’s healthy and strong. Now weighs 11 pounds, 12 ounces, is 23 1/2 inches long. Still growing fine, in the...