Books
Daddy’s Reading
A couple of months ago, I noticed a book titled The Mauritian Command in someone’s LibraryThing catalog. Since my dad was born and raised in Mauritius, I e-mailed the individual, asking about the book. He sent back a review and advised that I begin with Master and Commander (the first book in Patrick O’Brian’s series),…
Read MoreDaddy’s Reading
A couple of months ago, I noticed a book titled The Mauritian Command in someone’s LibraryThing catalog. Since my dad was born and raised in Mauritius, I e-mailed the individual, asking about the book. He sent back a review and advised that I begin with Master and Commander (the first book in Patrick O’Brian’s series),…
Read MoreThe Song of the Herb Robert Fairy
Little Herb Robert, Bright and small, Peeps from the bank Or the old stone wall. Little Herb Robert, His leaf turns red; He’s wild geranium, So it is said. Thank you, Dawn (By Sun and Candlelight), for making me aware of the above poem from Cicely Mary Barker’s The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies.
Read MoreDK Eyewitness Travel Guides
Yesterday, I checked out a DK Eyewitness Travel Guide on South Africa. I was very excited, as I looked through the book. It was informative and well-done. I told my husband that I would like to purchase some of the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides. Then, I turned to page 372 of the survival guide section…
Read More“Exploring Boston with Charlotte Tucker”
Melissa Wiley is working on another unit study. This time, she is focusing on Chartlotte Tucker (I wrote a short review of these books for Saint Joseph Catholic Homeschool last year). We might have to reread the Charlotte books, too.
Read More“Exploring Scotland with Martha Morse”
Last year, I wrote a mini-review of Melissa Wiley’s books for Saint Joseph Catholic Homeschool Group. This morning, I found that Melissa has a wonderful Martha Morse unit study on her blog. My children and I may just need to reread Wiley’s books this summer, so that we can put this study of Scotland to…
Read MoreThe Privilege of Being a Woman
I just started reading Alice von Hildebrand’s The Privilege of Being a Woman. The following statements made an impression on me: The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).…
Read MoreIndifference
Thank you, God, for answering my prayer. This morning, I read the following from Father Jean C.J. d’Elbée’s I Believe in Love: Contempt — and indifference even more than contempt — is hard to accept. We must swallow the bitter gall of being left aside as insignificant while the idol of self is obliged to…
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