It has been a cold December day and I am sitting inside wishing for a fire to warm my hands. A pot of chicken broth is bubbling on the stove. Tonight, as I chopped vegetables and threw handfuls of herbs into the pot, I thought about the flavorful liquid...
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There is a story often told. It is a timeless story about the courtship between a good man and a gentle young woman. They marry. A family comes into being, into which a child is born. This is a story so often repeated in real time that its occurrences...
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Hwa is thet mei thet hors wettrien the him-self nule drinken Written in an older form of English, the above apparently means something like, “Who can give water to the horse that will not drink of its own accord?” Perhaps the oldest English proverb still in use today,...
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At the time of Jesus’ coming, the world was roughly divided into two kinds of people—God’s chosen people,the Jews, and everyone else, the Gentiles. For hundreds of years, the Jews had been seeking the promised Messiah, but they looked in the wrong kinds of places for the wrong kind...
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Rain falls on the tin roof outside my office window. No snow tonight; it is not even in the forecast for the week. Nevertheless, I am thinking of snow as I have been reading Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Since summer, I have been meandering...
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In her Writers Circle article, “Reflections on Tutor Humility ,” Amanda Butler imperatively exhorted tutors to embrace humility for “humility allows tutors to support families in a mentoring relationship, humility permits honesty to permeate the lessons in the classroom, and humility invites the Holy Spirit to do His...
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I have never worked very hard on memorizing. With varying degrees of memory success, I have carried around little Bible memory cards and even worked on long passages of scripture. In high school, I memorized Macbeth’s speech about the petty pace that creeps on. And I have also memorized...
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I am new to tutoring Challenge I, so I am learning as I go. However, isn’t that always the case? I am always learning. I love literature, so I pour a lot of passion into the subject naturally. It is also one of the best seminars during which...
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Raise your hand if every day is homeschooling utopia with your family. No? No hands raised? None here either! One of my most favorite things about my group of friends is no matter what kind of day I have had with my children, if I tell my friends, at...
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The most common objection I hear from my students about Latin is—drum roll, please—why do I have to work so hard to study a dead language? I have two answers to this issue. The first answer is that most students quickly discover that Latin is really alive and well. I will...
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“Describe the last excellent conversation you had. What triggered it?” “What is the most important lesson you will take from high school to your next endeavor?” “Who do you want to be your mentor for the next two to seven years?” “Where can you find people whose message persuades...
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Chapter One – Why We Still Need Classical Education Dorothy, Doubts, and Dialectic by Cara McLauchlan “Our job as parents is to restore our own education as we translate our vision of quality academics into small daily deeds. In this way, education is transformed from an endeavor rewarded by...
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