Speaking of quilts, we received another adorable blanket from a CWR writer. A blue and pink quilt, little sunbonneted girls and little boys in overalls….entirely handstitched, she writes. I love quilts and I love making quilts, thus people...
I’ve been doing laundry this week. Lots of it. I’ve washed the sheets not only from our bed but from the guest bed as well. And the blankets too. And all the dirty clothes, not just enough to get by. And a load of baby clothes. In...
In case I haven’t made it clear yet, in general, I am opposed to textbooks. Becky at Farm School composes a thoughtful entry on the subject that I found interesting and valuable and that resonated with my own experiences as a student and...
A few weeks ago I saw the first snowdrops in our garden. Happy little flowers, the very first of spring. Then the crocuses came up, yellow and purple and white. But tonight I saw my first daffodils of the season! I love daffodils, so bright and...
Last night Dom imed me this link to a local blogger writing about his commute on the T, Boston’s subway system. Part of the genius is that he creates the character of Billy, the fictional driver: CHARLES [a stop on the red line] Billy stops...
Dom recently posted this picture, which I hadn’t seen before. I stumbled across it today. Glancing at it unprepared, and not expecting to see a picture of myself, I was really taken aback at how big I look. The thing is it all happens so...
I recently read Helena by Evelyn Waugh, a historical novel about St Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine who found the fragments of the true cross and brought them to Europe.—I’m on a bit of a Waugh kick after a recent re-read of...
While discussing my previous post on Catholic Home Schooling with Dom during our afternoon coffee (him) and applesauce (me) snack break, I decided that there was a larger point to be made. That is, many people have a very narrow notion of what you...
Several readers have recommended this book by Mary Kay Clark, the director of Seton Home Study: Catholic Home Schooling: A Handbook for Parents Even though I was skeptical about this book, because from what I know of Seton Home Study it is really...
I had lunch yesterday with my friend Jennifer, a fellow English teacher at Salem State that I’d lost touch with—hadn’t seen her since the end of the semester last spring and hadn’t got around to contacting her after I left...
