This has been a year of thinking fast, working fast, and reading fast…and even of feeling fast and praying fast. Although the first three can be positive, the last two most certainly are not. Therefore, I’m slowing down this summer. I’m not making a huge list of things for us to accomplish. We’re having minimal […]
Simple Joys
A Sweet Beginning to Summer Holidays
Last Friday, when our school year ended, it was time to celebrate the beginning of summer holidays. We had a special treat waiting in the fridge, our annual springtime cherry splurge, so I got that ready. Then the kids said that holidays are about cribbage, so they got the cards and the cribbage board out. And that’s how […]
Notes on The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages by Shaunti Feldhahn
A few weeks ago we celebrated our 25th anniversary. Through health and sickness, riches and poverty, joy and heartbreak, God has been with us, and we have learned much about marriage. But even for us there are still helpful and encouraging ideas in Shaunti Feldhahn’s book The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages: The Little […]
When There is Too Much to Do
We garden and we homeschool, and sometimes the combination seems to be a bit too much. This year I told my husband that we were not going to have a garden because it was impossible to combine with our homeschooling. He gently disagreed and pointed out that gardening was good for me and the children. […]
Measuring the Speed of Light with Chocolate
One of the fundamental scientific quantities in the universe is the speed of light. It is a huge number—about 300,000,000 meters per second or 186,000 miles per second—and is basic to electricity, magnetism, particle physics, cosmology, and the theory of relativity. And, what’s really cool, most homes nowadays have the tools to measure it! We […]