A mini review of Julie Bogart’s The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life. Happy inspiration for keeping our kids’ excitement for learning alight. In The Brave Learner, Bogart helps us realize that we are the right parents for our kids. We are even the right teachers for our kids, in spite of our weaknesses in algebra…
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A short and sweet review of a modern novel, The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles. The Lincoln Highway is not just an entertaining but a brilliant story. The plot twists and turns as two brothers head out on a quest that is continually interrupted by the differing quests of two friends who just broke out of a work camp. Bright,…
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We recently moved, and it wasn’t a quick move from one house to another in the same town. It involved a 30 hr round trip to the location where my husband received training (hotel stay), followed by moving to a temporary apartment in a new city, to closing on our new house and moving into it. And our kids are…
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A short-and-sweet summary of Michael Reeves’ Theologians You Should Know. This is easily one of my favorite nonfiction reads so far this year. Brief introductions to theologians who have changed the way Christians thought about God and the Bible, from the early church fathers to Luther to Packer. Surprisingly, I most enjoyed the chapters on the theologians with whom I…
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A mini review of a collection of essays by Wendell Berry entitled, The Art of the Commonplace. Some of these are excerpted from the Unsettling of America, which I read last year. Wendell Berry’s essays on agrarianism firmly root us in our communities. We do not stand or fall alone. We stand or fall along with the communities we have…
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