Category Archives: Education

So you’re graduating!

by Betsy Castleberry
The grass has turned green, tulips and daffodils are blooming, and the class of 2009 is graduating! My brother is among the graduate pictures on our refrigerator this year. It’s an exciting time, as you close a chapter and turn a new page, wondering what the next season of life will hold.
Yet with [...]

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The Moment of Remembrance

It’s more than a holiday. It’s more than a day for picnics and parties, for days at the beach. It is more than barbecues. It is a day to remember, and to honor those who have given their lives for their country. It is a day to realize and to understand the cost of war, [...]

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I am a homeschooler

by Claire M.

“You were homeschooled, weren’t you?” (Of course the question came on the heels of another demonstration of my woefully-deficient knowledge of pop culture.) “Through high school?”
Yes.
“That’s the big debate in our house now, whether to homeschool through high school. Did you use videos and co-ops and [...]

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tomato plants

I had to call and interrupt my logger daddy’s work the other day to tell him he got on Moody radio. Well, sort of.
The Harris twins were on FamilyLife Today talking about their book Do Hard Things (read my review here) and raising teenagers:

…parents need to have [...]

Also posted in Motherhood | 2 Comments

Go see Ben Stein’s "Expelled"

I knew nothing of Ben Stein or this new documentary until yesterday, and now I am telling everyone I know to go see Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. At first I said no. Not only do I not usually enjoy seeing movies, but there’s the expense and I know my reaction on seeing the website was [...]

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