The body. Without a doubt, you studied the body in school, probably several times. But do you really know how the body works? Do you know all the things that are happening in your body right now?
Of course not! Our bodies are so amazing and complex. If you stop and [...]

Last week, on Wednesday, I brushed my hair and put it up just before leaving for church. If I did what I normally do, I laid my hairbrush on my bedroom nightstand.
On Thursday, I couldn’t find my hairbrush on my nightstand or in the bathroom. I put my hair up without brushing it [...]

I first developed an interest in writing when I was around 11 years old – first poetry, then stories, and now articles and more technical writing. (I haven’t been “creative” in years.) Of course, I’ve wanted to incorporate creative writing instruction into our homeschool when the time is right. Last spring I [...]

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Like most children, my boys love story books. A fun story with colorful illustrations seems to hold a special appeal for kids…and their parents. We’ve been enjoying a picture book called The Special Wish from the Good News Express series. With its bright, lively drawings of bears and trains, this book has [...]

Have you ever wished for a simple, effective way to keep a book or paper in an easily visible position while you typed or did something else? From time to time, I find myself needing to type the text from a sheet of paper – maybe a letter or a song – and I [...]

We have three bedrooms here for five people – a king-sized bed, queen-sized bed, and two twin beds. Technically, that’s bed space enough for six people (seven, if you put a small child in the middle of the king bed). Eventually, we’d like to get Bunk Beds for the boys.
I thought for a [...]

What do you think of when you hear the word “hatchery”? Maybe I’m weird, but I think of things hatching … as in eggs, hatching. I’ve known about the nearby Tate Lohr Fish Hatchery for about a year and have wanted to take my kids out to see science and nature in action. [...]

Sci-fi. What do you think of? Spaceships, aliens, hidden underwater cities? Evil masterminds and plots to rule the galaxy? Science fiction encompasses so many potential story lines with time periods stretching into the unimaginably distant future. Courtesy of Bethany House Publishers, I recently read a sci-fi title called Offworld by [...]

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