While researching art to illustrate the life of Jesus, I have found many works depicting Jesus and John the Baptist as children. Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist, after 1606, by Italian artist Annibale Carracci, courtesy…
Many homeschoolers in our area are excited for tonight’s graduation ceremony and a homeschool mom I know was just telling me that her daughter is getting ready for prom. Grand march at the senior prom in Greenbelt, Maryland, 1942. My…
When we came back home to Tennessee in 1993, we moved to Cookeville for Ray to serve as a minister. We had yet to find a house, so a sweet member of our new church invited us to stay with…
On this Friday before Mother’s Day, I’d like to share with you this acrostic with lessons from God’s Word about mothers. I thought about sharing a pretty flower and writing happy and sweet sentiments about Mother’s Day. I decided instead…
Our son John and his family visited the wonderful Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, last weekend. Ray and I had the privilege of visiting the Nelson in April of 2014 after we attended a homeschooling convention in…
Several years ago, our then-three-year-old grandson (who now is now 11) asked me if he could fix my hair. Of course, I said, “Yes.” I sat down, and he climbed up behind me with his big sister’s hair stuff bin.…
