Ramona and I are still reading about World War II. The other day we finished When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit .  She loved it, and I do, t...

Whither has October fled?  It's gone missing and I'm left wondering if one of my favorite months met all her obligations before she ...

I'm reading Hilda van Stockum's The Winged Watchman to Ramona as part of our World War II studies this year . Tonight, we wer...

Ramona and I have been talking about what we want to read and study this year, and one thing we've settled on is World War II. Anne-with...

It's Ash Wednesday! Mayhaps Ash Wednesday does not, in your view, call for an exclamation point. Especially if you are giving up coffe...

A recent library find:  The Tomb of the Boy King: A True Story in Verse  by John Frank. I haven't read it with Ramona yet, but I really...

Ramona and I have been reading about ancient Egypt. This week, thanks to the Book of Artrageous Art Projects , we mummified Barbie. Here she...

  While she was sick, Betsy decided to learn how to fold paper cranes. She was originally shooting for a thousand (editor's note: Sadako...

Here, at National Geographic .

The girls and I are doing a 4-H/History/Geography project, and we're looking into our family tree. My father has already made this very ...

Fr. Michael Giesler kindly sent me a review copy of his latest novel, Grain of Wheat , from Scepter Publishing . It's the first of his ...

"Every name ... is a lightning stroke to some heart, and breaks like thunder over some home, and falls a long black shadow upon some he...

We all really enjoyed this book! First published in 1955, Sun Slower, Sun Faster is a fun book about time travel, but it's also packe...

Do you get this catalog ? Memoria Press 's catalog, The Classical Teacher , always has great articles, making me feel that this is yet a...

... even though I really don't want to leave. There's just so much great, fun stuff for this time period. Our last few books: Anne-...

Though we could keep learning about the Middle Ages for years and years , we took a little break recently to spend some time with Pope Bene...

If All the Swords in England is a beautiful book about St. Thomas Becket. I called this post a "sort of a review" because I'm...

We've been on some detours lately. Although, when I consider it, "detour" isn't really the right word. A detour implies th...

Here's the problem with homeschooling: I keep taking time away from school to learn things. We're wandering through the Middle Ages ...

The other day, as the girls and I reviewed some of the things we've read about so far in our Middle Ages study, I stopped in the middle ...