I love words. Can you tell? I love the English language. I love the beauty that you can find as you string words together. I love the music and cadence you can almost feel in a well written script. I love the depth of words well turned. I’m often horrified by the lack of respect our […]
Where Respect is Due
I’m reading a news story, and I’m horrified. A mother admitting to killing and hiding six of her own new-born babies over the course of a decade. How could this happen? I was supposed to write about respect today. It’s in my schedule. It would probably already be written if it wasn’t for the unpredictability […]
Five Right Reasons to Homeschool
Back in January I wrote a post about five reasons people choose to Homeschool that I believed were flawed. Five Wrong Reasons to Homeschool Most of these reasons had a basis in making sure that you are not trying to control what your child thinks and believes through a micro-management of their environment, but rather to […]
The Beauty in Me: Looking Past “Body Image” To Find True Beauty
Beautiful. It’s a word that has so much meaning, and so difficult to define. It’s an ideal many of us chase and never feel we’ll reach. It’s a feeling of delight in what you see, and an inner confidence that inspires us. And for so many of us it’s a daily question. Am I beautiful? […]
The Joy in Disability
Self focus kills our joy. In a world where self-help books abound with ways to get fulfillment in your life that statement might seem a bit odd. But I’d swear by it. Self focus and a self obsessive attitude, good or bad, will destroy your joy. I think we really truly have no idea how […]
My Jesus has Teeth!
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. -The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Aslan…. The name is dear to me. Oh […]
Happily Ever After?
“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.” -William Shakespeare Love that does not change, […]
Five Wrong Reasons to Homeschool
Homeschool Kids Rock! I was Homeschooled, so I really have to say that. My parents started homeschooling me when I was around ten years old after they decided they couldn’t continue sending us to the small one room Christian School we had gone to up until that point. Now, as an adult, I keep in […]
“Where are my glasses?” Looking for the Lens of Truth.
I find it kind of weird when I see someone wearing “fashion glasses.” You know the kind? The fake ones that some people wear because they think they look cool? As an individual who’s needed glasses long enough to be the only kid on the play ground other than my brother wearing them, I just […]
Duck, Duck, Goose: Why I feel we need to call “truce” on the culture war.
There are days I really feel like sticking my head in the sand. Today is one of them. A guy from a show I never have watched in my life has made a statement. That statement has gotten a particular response. That response has set a big old explosion off in my facebook feed. I […]