Fun or Fuddy-Duddy?
I’m glad I had parents who took me to my first popular music concert themselves when I was just ten years old. We heard a folk group on a calm and peaceful afternoon at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. I’m…
Category Just for Fun
The Right Place, The Right Time
Yesterday I told you about the wealthy Kirbys who do what brings wealth and prestige and the eccentric Vanderhofs who do what makes them happy while trusting the One Who takes care of the lilies of the field. After Alice…
Christmas in July
Ray and I were both beat when we got up this morning. We had worked all evening on a final proof and went to bed exhausted. Then, we were awakened early this morning — as in sometime before 5:00 a.m. — by a…
Typical Homeschool Daddies
What are the typical questions new acquaintances ask your children? “What’s your name? How old are you? What do you want to be when you grow up?” were the typical ones when our children were growing up. Have they changed…
Out of Our Element
Once upon a time manners were so important that people who rarely attended formal affairs feared they would commit a major social faux pas by using the wrong fork or spoon. On those occasions they felt “out of their element.”…
Teaching Mamas and Teachable Kids
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…