Precious Homeschooling Mama, I admire you. You love your children deeply and make daily sacrifices to do what you believe is best for them. You are one of my heroines. I know that there are days when you don’t feel…
Members of the Helping Hand Club of West Carlton, Oregon, display a quilt they were making to help one of their members. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, Courtesy of the New York Public Library. Winslow Homer painted A Basket of Clams…
English hymnwriter Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander wrote the Christmas carol “Once in Royal David’s City” and published it in 1848 in Hymns for Little Children. In 1918 King’s College Chapel Choir at Cambridge University began a special Christmas Eve service…
When I think of a walk in the woods from my childhood, I remember trails in Tennessee state parks. When I think of a walk in the woods from our children’s childhoods, I often remember hiking on a trail in…
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, in 1856. He was the son of Presbyterian minister Joseph Ruggles Wilson and his wife, Janet Woodrow Wilson. Wilson grew up in the South while his father served in churches in Augusta,…
Ray and I continue our journey through his daily radiation treatments. What a joy it is to meet people who are walking the same journey. They give us much support and understanding. Today Ray gets to take a break. One…
