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Using Voxer to Build Community

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]oday, I’m taking time off from talking about homeschool planning or The Liberal Arts Tradition to discuss a tool that I have found to be invaluable. I know we mentioned it briefly in our How to Start a Scholé Sisters Group workshop, but today I want to go into a little more depth. Some of you have told me that you just can’t find other local homeschool moms that are on the same page as you. I still insist that you Continue Reading…
July 29, 2015
Book Club: Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker{Chapter 3}

I really thought I would never catch up. I still haven’t been able to read all of the Chapter 2 entries, but I wanted to keep writing so as to stay on track, though obviously that didn’t happen last week. But, conveniently enough, there is no posting scheduled for the club this week. This means I can post my entry and be all caught up for next week! Barring all health drama, of course. I took a bunch of notes Continue Reading…
November 20, 2012
Book Club: Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker{Chapter 2}

This post is a week overdue. In addition to Math Week, I also had the stomach flu last week. As proof of my good fortune, three of my children have come down with the chicken pox in the last 24 hours. I considered skipping this chapter, but decided I’d rather be behind than skipping an integral part of the conversation. After all, I don’t really know what I think until I’ve written it down. Ahem. This whole chapter is really Continue Reading…
November 14, 2012
Book Club: Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker{Chapter 1}

I must admit at the outset that I haven’t read much Sayers and so I spent much of this initial reading {I read the preface, also} adjusting to her writing style. I like it, for what it’s worth. Cindy called her the “undercover Chesterton” and I can’t say I disagree. Sayers wrote this over seventy years ago, and yet her points are still applicable {a sure sign of a good book}. In this chapter, she discusses our two definitions of the Continue Reading…
October 30, 2012