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Thoughts on Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Episode 136
Somehow, Berry makes you feel affection for all mankind, even those who aren’t likable and maybe even those who are wicked but especially for those w…
8 years, 2 months ago
Thoughts on Consider This by Karen Glass
Episode 135
As I’ve written before, the goal of education is virtue, and Karen’s first chapter jumps right into the heart of it. She proves that virtue – right a…
8 years, 2 months ago
Family is For Fellowship.
Episode 134
Too often, when we start making goals around keeping house better or getting more done, our focus shifts too far and we start seeing these means as e…
8 years, 2 months ago
Thoughts on Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
Episode 133
I recently finished Laurie Bestvater's The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason, and I loved it. I bought it based on Brandy's reviews…
8 years, 2 months ago
15 Minutes is All You Need
Episode 132
One way we give in to perfectionism is to not start unless we know we can finish and get the results we want.
But as busy moms, that is rarely possibl…
8 years, 3 months ago
Choose Your Expression.
Episode 131
It’s easy to smile at our newborns, smile at a cute three-year-old antic, smile at our bigger kids when they volunteer to help out. It’s good our lif…
8 years, 3 months ago
Thoughts on Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung & Shopping for Time by Carolyn Mahaney
Episode 130
“Cross to carry” is a phrase used to talk about suffering as a lot in life, but this portrayal of that cross, that suffering, as an active things in …
8 years, 3 months ago
Resist Plan Perfectionism. Iterate.
Episode 129
It’s paralyzed us all.
Perfectionism.
We wait to start moving forward with our plans because we aren’t sure if we’re doing it right. We aren’t sure the…
8 years, 3 months ago
Thoughts on Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
Episode 128
If you are starting out homeschooling with a bright-eyed little 5-year-old – a toddler tagging along and another on the way – you eat up the stories …
8 years, 3 months ago
SO063: Give Yourself a Motto
Episode 127
Season 11: Attitude Organization Tips When we recite a handful of mottos over and over again, and conform our choices to them, we more and more natur…
8 years, 3 months ago