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Fired.

I try not to complain around here. I don’t think this is the proper forum for airing our personal laundry. From the very beginning, I have wanted this blog to be about ideas…with a few personal antics {compliments of my beloved children} on the side. But I’m hoping you’ll indulge me today because I’m just…so…frustrated. Exactly five-and-a-half years ago yesterday, I started this blog. I had been reading blogs for a time, and for even longer than that, I had Continue Reading…
June 30, 2011
Book Buying: It’s That Time of Year Again

As much as I despise spending money, I adore buying books, even if I’m doing it in front of a computer screen from the comfort of my own home office. Purchasing a book is like having a promise made to our family–a promise of increased wisdom, of time spent reading aloud together, of adventure and magic. And so on. Were you a reader as a child? I was. I still remember the anticipation of opening a new (to me) book. I Continue Reading…
August 3, 2010
Philosophy of Giving and Five Gifts for Littles

I‘ve been spending the morning wrapping Christmas gifts, drinking coffee, and generally enjoying the beginning of the season, and so I thought I’d write one my usual “gifts and philosophy of giving” posts a bit early this year. After all, everybody loves opening great gifts, no matter whether it’s Christmas or a Birthday. We’ll start with philosophy and end with gifts. Worthy of Celebration Kendra recently quoted a wonderful little piece by Nancy Wilson called Christmas Worldliness: Christian people are Continue Reading…
November 28, 2009
A Child’s Government-Funded Day

Reading books about early America is extremely helpful for the purpose of comparison. {It’s also a highly enjoyable activity.} We are all born with a certain level of chronological snobbery; we think the world really got going once we arrived on the scene. We also tend to think that the way things are in our life is the way things have always been. As children, we quickly learn that old people are prone to talking about the “good old days,” Continue Reading…
September 6, 2009