I have to confess, this motto: “I am, I can, I ought, I will,” which many home schoolers have adopted as their own, has never really grabbed me. Until I saw this formulation: I am a child of God, I ought to do His will, I can do what he...
A free online test apparently developed by Harvard Medical School researchers tests one’s ear for music.
Surprisingly, I got 75.0%.
via Dawn Eden
This address was recently given by Dr. Louise Cowan at the University of Dallas, my alma mater (audio file available here). She takes as her point of departure Pope Benedict’s now-famous remarks at Regensberg. But where his focus is on the...
Lovely thought of the day from Steven Riddle at the Flos Carmeli blog: . . . What came from this chain of thought is that I need to radically alter my view of God’s involvement in the life of the world. He is intimately entangled in every...
The letter G! Specifically the hard G. I don’t know why but for some reason that sound had Bella in stitches this afternoon and this evening. Absolutely the funniest thing she’d ever heard. I’ve never seen her laugh so much. It...
Dom recently took this charming picture of Isabella with his camera phone. That sound you hear is a mother’s heart breaking. Update: Ok, people, just to be clear, that’s a figure of speech! She’s so beautiful, it breaks my heart...
The Isabella Marie record for pulling off her hat right after mom puts it on…. 5 seconds!
I’ve been thinking more about Waugh and my ambivalent reaction to books other than Brideshead Revisited. And I’m realizing that it isn’t much different than my reaction to other authors I’ve discovered when the first thing I...
“There is no guarantee that a child will choose to believe or want to live a Christian life later on. And we must not brainwash them in any way. It will be their choice. They need to know why and how the Christian faith is believed to be...
Recorded November 1, 2006.
