One of the prettiest rooms Ray and I saw in the Massachusetts State House was the Senate Reception Room on the third floor. Between the round table in the center of the room and the row of chairs in the back, you can…
Ray’s and my tour of the Massachusetts State House included the Hall of Flags which is constructed of beautiful Italian marble. Italian artisans came to Boston to work on the Hall of Flags. They lived mainly in one area of Boston, an…
We took some wrong turns, but Ray and I finally did find a parking spot so we could visit the Massachusetts State House. We parked in the garage beneath Boston Common, the oldest public park in America, founded in 1634. As…
Meeting homeschooling New Englanders at the MassHOPE convention last weekend was a blessing to Ray and me. Between the two of us, Ray and I met homeschoolers from every New England state: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and…
When our family performed “A Walk Through Tennessee History in Story and Song” for homeschool groups in Tennessee, we always included the Big Band tune, “Chattanooga Choo Choo.”* Ray and I spent our honeymoon at the Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel in Chattanooga.…
Ray and I had a rare experience on Tuesday afternoon — it’s called margin. When I was in school, our teachers taught us to begin writing at the little red vertical line on our notebook paper and to stop when we…
Ray and I are on our way to convention number four for 2015–MassHOPE (Massachusetts Homeschool Organization of Parent Educators–one of my favorite homeschool organization acronyms) in Worcester, about an hour from Boston. This is our first time to share our…
Last week I heard a sweet story from my friend whom I’ll call Julie. Her husband who deeply loved Jesus left this world almost a year ago. Julie rejoices for her husband while missing him terribly, both for herself and for her…
I hope it is okay to tell a funny story about a funeral because I’m about to do just that. Miss Lynne was fun. I believe she would like to hear my story about what happened to me on Wednesday morning. I’ll…
