We all feel so busy. There is so much to do and often there seems to be so little time. Time. It’s one of life’s mysteries. Sometimes it slips away much too quickly, other times it is painfully slow. We try to stretch some hours but to compress others. We aim to manage it hour […]
Reviews: Nonfiction
Zeal Without Burnout for Homeschoolers
At this time of year most homeschoolers are feeling a little bit burnt out. That’s no wonder after an intense ten months of teaching some of the most important people in our lives some of the most important things they will ever learn. Or perhaps vainly trying to teach them without actually succeeding, which is […]
Review: Fundamentals I from Traditional Cooking School by GNOWFGLINS
For the last few years, my kitchen has been rather boring—there has been good healthy food, especially when the garden is producing, but very little excitement. That is changing now that I’m studying Fundamentals I: The Basics of Traditional Cooking. The course ebook is appropriately subtitled Make your kitchen healthy one task at a time, […]
Review: Darwin, The Voyage that Shook the World
Many of the papers and books I’ve been reading these days have been influenced by Darwin’s thought; most of our news items are as well; and our entire culture is driven by offshoots of his ideas. Science, politics, medicine, social sciences, law, literature, music, and even Christian thought have largely absorbed Darwinian concepts of survival […]
Review: Unstuffed by Ruth Soukup
Occasionally I feel burdened by stuff. Sometimes it’s our stuffed bookshelves, other times it’s my to-do list, and often it’s my desk which seems to attract all the piles that build up nowhere else. Usually my approach is to get busy and do something about it, but recently I was too tired for that so […]