Top 10 Books of 2013
I was hoping to read 52 books this year, but I didn’t quite make it. I read 48 books, which is still better than I’ve done in the
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Homemaking Encouragement for Christian Moms
Life Is Exercise: Start slowly and under advisement.
Some mornings I do an exercise video first thing in the morning, when I both want to feel on top of it and feel fat. I was tapping my foot
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Living from a state of rest
Cum dignitate otium, or Rest The Education is for Life Series This principle was another where I had to do my own searching for an applicable Latin motto. I could
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Life Is Exercise: Running requires endurance
You are a runner, running the race of life. It is not a competitive race, but it is a race. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud
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Daily Faithfulness
Festina Lente, or Faithfulness part of the Education Is for Life series This series was inspired by Chrisopher Perrin’s great webinars on the principles of classical education. One of
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Life Is Exercise: Running requires training
Life is like a race, which means it is something we must train for. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives
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Good Days & Bad
This summer I read John Owen’s Mortification of Sin. I enjoyed the delve into older, denser English. There were several places where at first I was a little taken
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Seeking or Seeming?
Esse quam videri, or Virtue The Education is for Life series In Christopher Perrin’s lecture, “Eight Essential Principles of Classical Education,” he talks about educational virtues, but for these
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Life is Exercise: It's ok to be tired.
You are a runner. Running requires effort and makes you tired and out of breath. That is a sign that you’re doing it, that you’re moving, not that
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The Simple Life.
Multum non Multa, or Simplicity Part of the Education Is for Life Series It is true that education is a life, and it is true that Life is an education,
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Education Is for Life, a series
Christopher Perrin has begun a great free video series developing eight principles of classical education – none of which require rote parroting of bare facts. He is talking about the core
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What Makes a Productive Day?
So, last week felt like a rough, terrible week. However, the school checklists got done, the house hadn’t really fallen apart, and we’d had no major disasters. Really,
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