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My Year of Reading 2018 – The Year I Blogged a Little. I didn’t blog much in 2018. The end of 2018 was during the first half of my daughter’s senior year so we were visiting schools and stressing … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2018)
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‘Tis the season for Book Lists and Book Challenges! At the beginning of 2020, I looked wistfully at several book challenges. I had about three I was considering and was pondering which “book in translation” to read when the Spirit … Continue reading My Year of Reading (2017)
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I have been looking, but so far, I haven’t found anything that I like as well for a New Year’s prayer as this prayer attributed to Oswald of Northumbria that I featured in a post a few years ago. It seems to cover just about everything. I find it fascinating that an Anglo-Saxon king and recent convert to Christianity can write a prayer that resonates over a millennia later. As I jot down my New Year’s resolutions, and some of them for the umpti-umpth time, it occurs that I might have a better chance at attaining my goals, and achieving … Continue reading Praying for the New Year
Innocents Song Who’s that knocking on the window, Who’s that standing at the door, What are all those presents Laying on the kitchen floor? Who is the smiling stranger With hair as white as gin, What is he doing with … Continue reading The Innocents Song
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There is no question that music is an enormous part of the holiday season. We all have favorite Christmas carols, although we might disagree on the timing of when to sing them. Pop culture has given us fun, seasonal songs … Continue reading Christmas Operetta – Laud to the Nativity
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A Commonplace Book Entry: Nobody can be a real princess – do not imagine you have yet been anything more than a mock one – until she is a princess over herself, that is, until when she finds herself unwilling … Continue reading A slave, and no princess
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The Daughter and I have been proceeding slowly through the Grammar of Poetry curriculum, a lesson per week or so through this school year. It’s supposed to be The Daughter’s curriculum, but as the teaching parent, who enjoys poetry … Continue reading Adventure in Anapest
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One of the highlights of our homeschool week is a gathering of a few friends to study art and culture in a rather interesting way that is part of the Charlotte Mason method. We call it Charlotte’s Way Thursday, because … Continue reading Charlotte’s Way Thursday
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Of all of my family, young and old, the most intuitive in terms of gift giving is my #1 Son. We have all unwrapped a gift from someone (whom we love despite all) who gave us something that they decided … Continue reading The Art of (Reflective) Gift Giving
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There was a time when if someone asked me what I thought the perfect job would be, I would say wrapping gifts at one of the Classic Department Stores like Thalhimers or Miller & Rhoads! What job could offer more … Continue reading The Art of (Deceptive) Gift Wrap
Sheltering at home, and pulling drafts from the draft folder. This one from the spring of 2018. Current events have drastically affected the wedding market. Perhaps, the better to savor the true meaning of the event. Thanks for reading. … Continue reading Hashtag: For Better or For Worse
As we are all forced to slow down a little due this month. I’m pulling out some posts that have languished in my drafts folder. I actually started this post in 2014, and updated it in 2018, now finally posting. … Continue reading Day by Day – Our Living Room Liturgy
Today is Trinity Sunday, a special day in the church calendar, that follows the giving of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, and focuses on the doctrine of the Triune nature of God. At church we sang one of my favorite … Continue reading Trinitarian Prayer
Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two … Continue reading Each is both, and all
