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Dutch treat: Huzaren salad

21 April 2012

Many writers I admire often put together posts or columns that contain a hodgepodge of ideas. Usually I come up with a main idea for this space but I fear my life has been so scattered lately that I am fresh out of main ideas. So I am putting together this editorial and calling it Huzaren Sla after one of my favorite Dutch salads that consists of

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Lingering long on one’s lessons

24 March 2012

I am often drawn to the teaching of Charlotte Mason. So many times it is a natural affinity. In preparing classes for a co-op I teach, I occasionally find myself a bit obsessed with a particular character. No worries! In a discussion of how history outlines can be mischievous in making one think the

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Gifts for the taking

11 February 2012

I must admit I have a kind of conflicted relationship with Ann Voskamp and her writings. On the one hand I am drawn to her gorgeous prose with its accompanying photographs of simple things beautifully arranged. On the other I read her musings, her battles within and I feel horribly inadequate. Why does

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Vision and Revision

12 October 2011

Before I started homeschooling, I listened to a series of tapes about a vision for homeschooling families. The speaker, George Grant was illustrating how we only use a small portion of the brain’s capabilities. He told a story of Teddy Roosevelt and how he was able to dictate two letters in different

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Weary in well doing

8 October 2011

Earlier this month I noticed several disheartening comments on e-mail groups of which I am a member. Most of us were just starting the homeschool year, with some having made that big decisions to start educating at home. Veterans were gearing up for yet another year, with several years or more under

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Stillness and rest for your soul

18 July 2011

The topic of rest seems to have presented itself to me in varied forms in the past month. I read about it to a teen son in his lessons as we were finishing up the regular school year. It came up in my devotions. A friend on Facebook posted an article on the idea of rest. The subject also came up at a

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Motherhood: Culture vs. Calling

21 May 2011

Every time I read an article on being a certain kind of a mom I think if only I was that kind of a mom, then my children would be really outstanding. I’ve read accounts of families who homeschool in an RV on the road visiting all those fabulous historical sites. Now that is a sure fire way to rear

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Real Life in a Virtual World

9 April 2011

Recently I was reading Little House on the Prairie to my youngest son. I was amazed by the fact that Pa knew how to make absolutely everything. I told my son that I wanted him to learn how to make things with his hands. “Oh, I make things all the time”, he said. “Really?” I responded. “Tell

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Tempter & the mom

14 March 2011

The monthly devotional I use, Tabletalk, published by R.C. Sproul’s Ligonier Ministries, had a series of articles in February’s issue that were a takeoff on C.S. Lewis’s masterful work The Screwtape Letters. As most of you know, Lewis penned this book as if he had come across a collection of correspondence

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I was a teenage palm reader

12 February 2011

By Jeannette Tulis Yes, you read that right, this homeschool mom, now a fairly conservative Christian, dabbled in the art of telling her high school classmates their future based on the lines in their hands. This was before I became a believer. It was a fun skill that made for instant popularity, albeit

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