I came across this photo several weeks ago on the Library of Congress website. Around 1946, photographer C. M. Stieglitz took this picture of cartoonist Roberta MacDonald drawing while her 15-month-old daughter, Patricia, watched her. MacDonald was a cartoonist for…
Like many homeschooling families, we are a family of book lovers. Each of our children’s spouses have fit right into a book-loving family; they love books, too. When we moved into this house twenty years ago, we had simple pine…
Between 1979 and 1983, I gave birth to three distinctly different children. Now those distinctly different children have blessed us with distinctly different grandchildren. Five of these distinctly different grandchildren came for an overnight visit last Friday. While Ray and…
Good Morning, Mamas! If you have enjoyed my series on President Coolidge and would like to share the entire series with others, our son John has created a special page on my blog site with links to all nine articles.…
This summer, as I watched children climb on stage and perform their Bible verses and their solos during the Homeschool Dramatic Society auditions, I was struck by their faces. I saw courage and innocence and hope and confidence. I was…
Bob Vollmer was 45 years old when he started to work for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Since then he has tramped around state property as a land surveyor. Now he is about to retire from a career that…
