What Women Tell Me: Finding Freedom From The Secrets We Keep, by Anita Lustrea
“As a girl and young woman, I memorized hundreds of Scripture verses in vacation Bible school and in Sunday school. I grew up memorizing the hymn book. I didn’t, however, grow up understanding much...
View ArticleBook Giveaway Week!
This past week while huffing through a morning deathmatch with our eliptical machine, my gaze fell on the nearby spines of several books have been given to me over the years to review. Having gotten...
View ArticleTake Care of Your ‘Neighbs With Some Simple Compassion
Today, one of our local news reporters delivered his thoughts on this record-breaking weather while stationed up to his thighs in snow on a fake deck. Nice touch, I thought. One leg was in a “normal”...
View ArticleThin Places goes to…
DENA! Congratulations! You’re the new owner of my gently-used copy of Mary DeMuth’s Thin Places. I’ll be contacting you for further details soon!
View ArticleYour Baby Doesn’t Come With Instructions
Do you find it rather unbelievable that we are asked to fill out nearly every detail of our existence to rent a movie from Blockbuster, that we are legally bound to take hunting and boating safety...
View ArticleFamily Friday: Book Nights
Pop some popcorn and get in your jammies for Book Night! My husband and I first considered taking story time beyond Officer Buckle and Gloria when one of his friends from work shared this simple idea:...
View ArticleOWL MOON Winner!
My, My! What astute readers have I! Last week Friday I shared a fun family idea and opened a contest to those of you who could correctly identify the name of the audio book our family listened to. All...
View ArticleGreat Minds and Lost Souls
Last month our family swam through years of history together, dodging slave traders and rabid dogs courtesy of the pages of a Harriet Tubman biography. We spent evenings imagining how cold and...
View ArticleThe Scrambled States of America
If you want to teach your gang geography, encourage them to value travel and well…possess the general knowledge that a reference to ”Washington” does not necessarily denote a conversation about our...
View ArticleA Lesson from Gary Paulsen’s “Hatchet”
If you’ve never read Gary Paulsen’s Newbery Award Winner Hatchet, I encourage you to add it to your list of classics. While it does seem better-suited for upper-el kids, there are some fantastic...
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