I am going to, once again, attempt to join an online book club. To join a book club reading Norms and Nobility. Phew. This time, though I’m reading with a group on the AO Forum led by Karen Glass. The schedule is rather slow: one section – maybe two – per week – over the…
So, I’ve been slacking a little bit with reading this book. Heather has posted on Chapter 5 & 6, here. I hadn’t posted on 6 yet. Neither of us posted on Chapter 7 last week. Then we decided to start doing two chapters a week. Huh. We’ll see how that works out for us. So,…
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time (or know me in person), you probably know that I love sports. I love Ohio State football (and really any college football) and basketball. I enjoy watching the Cincinnati Reds when I can (we dropped cable this winter, so that’s less often). Our kids…
I keep being a little afraid of what Sally is going to say in the next chapter, expecting that it will be the whammy chapter of “you’re not doing enough for Christ you slacker.” Even though I know she isn’t like that and is all that is encouraging. I suspect it is because I’ve known…
Oh, wow. This chapter totally hit me in my house. All my insecurities, my doubts of self-worth, my negative self perceptions. Every single negative thought and word in this chapter, plus some, I can name as mine. I bet I’m not the only one. I don’t mean this to be a pity-post, so we won’t…
This post is late because I was afraid of the topic after I read the epigraph from Leonardo da Vinci: You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself … the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment … And…
I’ve never loved the concept of heroes. I’ve never wanted to be a hero, nor really “had” heroes. Well, maybe Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew, but not the Superhero kind and not the so-and-so can do no wrong, I want to be just like that person, kind. I like to pick and choose. There have…
Many moons ago, not very far from me, I had a wonderful friend who had two toddler/ preschoolers and a six-month old. I had a newborn. We went to the same church and my husband and I moved to a home in the same town where this young mom lived. I planned to homeschool. She…