I haven’t thought much about the metric measuring system in a long while, but it came up in conversation with a mama at the homeschool convention we attended last weekend. In discussing various math programs she has tried, she noted…
Our children are counting on us. When I learned to drive, our family’s only vehicle was a Volkswagen bus with a manual transmission. While learning how to “keep between the ditches,” as Daddy used to say, I also had to…
In 1969 John Denver recorded the song “Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life.” Fifty years later on this first day of 2019 is a good time to be thinking about that idea. How do we…
If you have read Daily Encouragement very long, you have seen many photographs from the Library of Congress. It is a treasure house of historic photographs and fascinating historic information. My research recently took me to a Library of Congress…
Let me warn you. I’m starting off with discouraging stories and ending with positive ones. Hang in there! On a recent Wednesday night after church, a teacher (I’ll call her Jill) told me that she skips over parts of what…
Yesterday I marveled again at the millions of tiny lavender flowers that bloom by the roadside each spring. They spread out like a pastel carpet near the river. They mingle with other wildflowers as they cling to the sides of…
