I missed our anniversary!! Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of Daily Encouragement for Homeschool Mothers. I knew we were coming up on it, but I just didn’t think about it when I wrote the blog for yesterday. I want…
Our 2014 continues to be a reunion year for Ray and me. When we married at the end of 1974, I joined Ray in Lexington where he was working on his Masters in history at the University of Kentucky. While there…
In 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, a baby boy was born into an African American family (I’ll call him Keith). While he was still a boy, his mama discovered that her husband was a bigamist with a second family. The couple divorced and…
Good morning, homeschool heroines. I apologize for our technical difficulties yesterday. I wrote the blog late Wednesday night and made the “boy, I sure was tired last night” corrections Thursday morning in plenty of time for it to come to…
We drove through Kentucky yesterday, headed for the homeschool convention in Cincinnati. We stopped at Wendy’s in Mount Vernon. Decorating its walls were three historic images about local country music. Ray reminded me that we were near Renfro Valley. Since…
I’ve been thinking about heroes today. I hate to hear about a Christian hero who has told the world how to live and then falls with a loud, banging crash that seems for a while like what happened at Lexington…
A few years ago our daughter Mary Evelyn led homeschooling students as they presented the play, “The Cross Behind the Curtain.” Based on real events from the 1960s, the play told the story of Christians who suffered for their faith…
On Saturday, as Ray and I traveled to visit Bethany and her family for Easter, we finished reading aloud a memoir. The author spoke often about her close relationship with her son. We were impressed again and again as we…
Peter Spier has long been one of my favorite children’s illustrators. His Noah’s Ark has been at our house since John was born in 1979, the year after it won the Caldecott Medal. People has had a home here since Christmas of…
