The Joy of the Home School Conference

The Joy of the Home School Conference

My husband, Richard, and I just got home from our first-ever home school convention: Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV). Let me hasten to add that I felt a bit of a fraud, considering I didn’t home-school my children. In their day, it was barely a thing. In...
No Fear

No Fear

Remember the slogan, ‘No Fear’? It used to be everywhere–shirts, folders, posters. Well, it was thirty years ago, so maybe not. For me, that was only yesterday. Scary Stories Once my bulldog Clemmy was sniffing around when the neighbor dropped a rake....
Worth Being Obsessed With?

Worth Being Obsessed With?

Obsession I recently saw a headline announcing that some Hollywood star is obsessed with her face cream. Having never experienced this particular obsession, I looked it up on the almighty Google. Apparently, a lot of people are. WHAT??? Obsession is defined as a...
Dipping, Sipping, or Something Else?

Dipping, Sipping, or Something Else?

Communion Safety  I can’t count the number of times that I have been assured that it is safe to drink from the common cup. Admittedly, if it were VERY dangerous, our churches would be empty–we’d all be dead. But is it safe? As a microbiologist and...
The Nature and Necessity of Beauty

The Nature and Necessity of Beauty

I’m No Spring Chicken Not so long ago, one of my granddaughters brought her little face up close to mine and inspected me carefully. “Grammy, you’re really old!” At another time, another one asked me why I don’t just let my hair be gray, seeing as I am ancient...
Seasons Change

Seasons Change

Change is Inevitable Who of us remembers that song, “Turn Turn, Turn” with music by the Byrds and lyrics by King Solomon? I certainly listened to, and even memorized, it many years ago, when I was a child growing up in Iowa. If you want to hear it again, this is...