We had some rough patches this week, but overall had a successful week. I didn’t do a report last week, I think. We did only a little on Monday and none but the fair on Friday … and I went to the Women’s Retreat. We had three good days sandwiched between, though. Tuesday, we went…
The Secret Of Contentment by William B. Barcley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own. Barcley’s book is an attempt to bring together Burroughs’ Hidden Jewel and Watson’s Art of Divine Contentment and bring them into the 21st Century for the modern reader. He builds his argument carefully and in detail, so that the last…
Circle Time for the week of September 24, 2012 : Bible: continuing Philippians 2:1-3 adding verse 4. Catechism: M-girl is going to be reciting 4 pages of our catechism book a day. N-boy is continuing with the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. Those are tricky, there aren’t really any hints. R-girl is still…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… cold and dark. A bit of frost on the ground. Welcome, autumn!I am thinking… about pumpkin foods … I am thankful… that our Presbytery’s Women’s Retreat went so very well this weekend. What a wonderful time of learning and fellowshipping.In the kitchen… we’ll be creative today ’cause I haven’t been…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… it’s a dark and rainy night. I am thinking… I’m glad it didn’t start raining until after the soccer games.I am thankful… for my wonderful husband and the fact that he’s now the same age as I am again.In the kitchen… pot roast for dinner. Yay for fall foods!I am…
Never Gone by Laurel Garver My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own on Kindle. I don’t usually read YA and I *never* read ghost stories. (I’m a scardey cat) I couldn’t put this one down. I love how Garver wove the seemingly normal of the horror that is death into a net of confusion created…
Well, after two good weeks, this week was bound to be difficult. It was. We had Monday off to visit my sister, which was great. Since Monday, however, I can’t say things ran particularly smoothly for any of us. We ended up taking part of Thursday off too, accomplishing only Circle Time and Art with…
… memory training was considered a form of character building, a way of developing the cardinal virtue of prudence and, by extension, ethics. Only through memorizing, the thinking went , could ideas truly be incorporated into one’s psyche and their values absorbed. The techniques existed not just to memorize useless information like decks of playing…
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Library. I first heard about this book in my very favorite talk on memorization in education by E. Christian Kopf at the Society for Classical Learning called “Rote Memorization and Classical Education.” I was astonished to…
Circle Time for the week of August 27, 2012 : Bible: continuing Philippians 2:1-2 adding verse 3. Catechism: M-girl is going to be reciting 4 pages of our catechism book a day. N-boy started the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. Those are tricky. R-girl started the First and Second Commandments today. We’ve been…