In the comments below Cecelia’s Mommy asked: Cecilia is 14 months and like you I have been looking for and collecting good books for her to read in the future. Sometimes, I confess, I even browse your Amazon.com wish lists for ideas. I have...
This great article at LumenGentleman clears up some questions I had and even answered some I didn’t have.
I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled;Not prone to overstated gushing praiseNor yet to seething rants and anger, filledWith overstretched opinions to rephrase;But on the other hand, not fond of fools,And thus, not fond of people, on the whole;And...
This First Things column on homeschooling addresses some of the topics Dom and I have been discussing recently, especially the way education is not a series of discrete subjects, but integrated into all aspects of life. When people think of school...
I’m about a third of the way through; but have found much to comment on so far. I figured I’d go ahead and write a blog post. I’m not finding this book quite as engaging as How Children Learn. I suppose I’m more interested in...
I was delighted to find the Deputy Headmistress’ review of this wonderful book, a should-have reference for any homeschooler’s library. I had the privilege of taking a couple of classes with Dr. Louise Cowan, one of the book’s...
This post at Amy Welborn’s is from a while back, but I must have missed it while I was in the midst of catching up on my blog reading after our long Texas vacation. Amy passes on a request from a priest who asks how parishes can better provide...
The Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City has a beautiful shrine dedicated to children who died unborn that I hope to visit one day. You can click the link in the menu at the left of their page to take you to pictures of the shrine and of...
Screaming summons me into the living room. “What’s wrong?” I asked Dom, who’d been watching the baby, “Did she fall?” No, evidently, he’d wondered what the black object was that she’d been moving...
While my sister was here, she started to teach me the basics of knitting and crocheting. I decided the knitting was a bit too difficult to pick up in a week, so we stuck with crocheting. I pulled apart the first piece I did. But here’s a...
