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Friday, August 31st, 2007I wasted a little of my time this morning making some bookmarks. I merely did one and then changed the quotes on duplicated copies.
I use the OpenOffice Draw program to do stuff like this. I also make the covers and spine labels for binders with this program. I printed the bookmarks on cardstock [...]
Causes of the Civil War
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007For a time, I was influenced by reading things I’d not read before about the causes of the Civil War so that I came to believe that states’ rights was the main issue and that slavery was only one way that states’ rights was asserted. Then I read Arguing About Slavery which every [...]
Moral Imagination
Thursday, July 26th, 2007The DHM has written a couple of great posts on books, their ability to “awaken the moral imagination”, and “family bickering”.
She says:
I think this Socratic method (asking leading questions) of leading the children to see for themselves that their rights and claims for happiness are no greater than those of the rest of mankind [...]
Surprised By Joy
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007I wrote on Cindy’s blog about children going away for an education with masters and earlier below about the influence of the totality of experience on ourselves. I was thinking this because of reading Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis. Actually it is something that I’ve been thinking a very long time about, [...]
C.S. Lewis on Newspapers
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007People have been shocked at my opinion that I have found newspapers to be a waste of my time. I really don’t have much to waste! My main problem has been that as much as I would like to be informed of what’s going on in government, I really don’t have much faith that [...]
Hardly knowing where to begin….
Friday, June 8th, 2007Some have been discussing what they’ll be doing for the summer and so I thought I’d add my plans. I really do plan on making up a reading list to participate in SeasonalSounding’s Summer Reading Challenge, but at the moment, I’m not sure how to prioritize my reading and to-do list. I rarely get everything [...]
Bookstore-Hannah Coulter
Friday, June 8th, 2007I felt like a dummy when I realized I had done this. I linked the Hannah Coulter book to Amazon because of the descriptions and reviews readily available, but I really should have pointed readers to Cumberland Books which is where I purchased Hannah Coulter.
Hannah Coulter
Friday, June 1st, 2007I would just be repeating what a lot of others have said if I were to say that Wendell Berry is a wonderful writer. Here’s an excerpt from Hannah Coulter:
He was born in 1890. The summer Nathan and I married, Jarrat was fifty-eight, beginning to get old. His hair was white, his eyebrows coarse and [...]
Janie Cheaney at Springfield Borders
Friday, May 4th, 2007Janie sent me the following information to pass around, and I just realized I could post it here. I know local people read my blog, even if they never post.:-)
Here’s the info:
Janie B. Cheaney, the author of Wordsmith: A Creative Writing Course for Young People, is a former homeschool mom and speaker at [...]
Wisdom and Eloquence
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007Juanita wrote a review of this book which I read a few months ago–maybe even close to a year ago. About the only helpful thing I said about the book at the time was that I thought it would be the first book I would recommend for those wanting to learn about classical ed. I [...]
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