“We are being very careful with our children.They’ll never have to pay a psychiatrist twenty-five dollars an hour to find out why we rejected them. We’ll tell them why we rejected them. Because they are impossible, that’s why…You take Christopher – and you may; he’s a slightly used eight-year-old… I watch him from the kitchen…
Month: June 2018
A Mother’s Rule of Life
In the early days of my homeschooling, I discovered a little gem that I have read and re-read throughout the last decade. A Mother’s Rule of Life by Holly Pierlot is an interesting book which has proved to be a valuable resource in my homeschool and spiritual life. Understanding that the home is not a…
Book Club: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Earlier this month, I hosted a Wonderful Wizard of Oz themed book club at Cathedral Book and Gift with 15 young readers. I think that of all of our book clubs to date, this was my favorite. I do like the Oz books, but that is not why this was my favorite. Last summer we…
Book Club: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Earlier this week, I hosted a book club at Cathedral Book and Gift for 34 readers aged 7-15. I was shocked by the number of registrations for this particular club because our book was Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a book which many find to be quite strange. During my years at Hillsdale College,…
Beauty
Beauty Robin McKinley This will be a summer of reading, rereading, makings lists, and mercilessly shortening them as I plan literature courses for the coming fall. Over the years, I have seen Beauty, by Robin McKinley, on so many lists of good books that I thought it was high time I read it. I believe…