Podcast Episodes

Life is full of entropy

Episode 153

Entropy is real. Entropy is part of the current natural order. The dictionary defines it as, “a gradual decline into disorder.”

That’s real life.

Gardens grow weeds.

If we want to handle life well, we h…

Published on 6 years, 10 months ago

Life will change. It’s OK.

Episode 152

Life goes through different phases, stages, and seasons. Nothing we do will change that. Instead, what we do should work with that reality.

Planning and organizing while knowing that life will change …

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Homeschooling Middle School Boys

Episode 151

The enthusiasm of our young children energizes us. When they delight in poems, birds, stories, and singing, we take a deep breath and are relieved. This education thing we’re trying is working.

Then t…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Set Your Mind - Intentionally.

Episode 150

Own your thoughts: Change the subject in your head.

When fear or doubt creeps in, we don’t need to reason with it or explain it away or answer it. We can simply pray about the issue that’s vexing us a…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Organize your attitude: a conversation with Virginia Lee Rogers

Episode 149

We’re kicking off the year with a conversation Virginia Lee Rogers and I had about keeping our attitudes organized in the midst of real life.

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

SO073: Living From a State of Rest

Episode 148

Season 12: Finding Rest as a Homeschool Mom This season of the Simplified Organization Audio Blog is excerpts from an hour-long live chat all about resting as a homeschool mom. Find the link below to…

Published on 7 years, 2 months ago

Teaching is Hard & Worth It: Seneca on Education

Episode 147

The result of an education in wisdom is a resilient integrity which knows what should be done and has the strength of mind and body to do it.

Published on 7 years, 2 months ago

All God’s Truth: Clement on Classical Christian Education

Episode 146

The classical tradition does not see itself as a new thing, but as part of the stream of Western civilization that started in Greece, grew in the middle ages, has suffered much recently, but still ex…

Published on 7 years, 2 months ago

The 3 Kinds of Rest We Need

Episode 145

We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women out there can manage, but we aren’t and ca…

Published on 7 years, 3 months ago

Fruitful Subjects of Study: Tacitus & Philo on the Liberal Arts

Episode 144

General and wide knowledge is the foundation of the educated mind, the roots that nourish it and cause it to grow.
In order to bear fruit, we must learn and know.

Published on 7 years, 3 months ago