Weekend Reading, Traveling
My husband just finished reading The Heavenly Man, the remarkable true story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun. I’ll be starting it next, because I need to have conversations with him; this book has...
View ArticleBook Review: The Heavenly Man
The Heavenly Man: the remarkable true story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway reviewed by Jen, Diary of 1 The story of Brother Yun is inspiring, painful, seemingly...
View ArticleMy French Book List for 2008
Why French books? Mostly because I’m enamored with France, though I’m not entirely sure why. I began to learn the language in high school, and slowly began to absorb the culture, cuisine, and history...
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Norman Rockwell: The People’s Painter
Norman Rockwell is slowly emerging from his low rank among artists of the 20th century. An “illustrator” not an artist; a producer for mass publication not for the galleries; simple and poignant not...
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Gardening With Children
We’ve been spending some time in the dirt getting the soil ready to start a garden. And no surprise, children are drawn to dirt like nothing else! You mean you want me to dig holes? I’m allowed to get...
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The Child’s Spring Book
Spring is here! It came, then ducked under a series of freak hailstorms and a blanket of snow, only to emerge this weekend for good. The kids and I basked in a perfect April day on Friday, obeying the...
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A Simple Woman – September 1
Hosted by Peggy at The Simple Woman For Today… Outside my Window…is a pale blue September sky, a hint of chill in the air. The day is warming up after a *freeze* last night! I am thinking…about God,...
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Cole Family Christmas: A Treasured Tale
“Do the flying Hilda!” JJ shrieked in delight to her brother as he hung over the balcony, swinging a little plush goat. With four young children in the house, nothing surprises me anymore, not even a...
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John Sanford: retired Cornell professor shows up Darwinism
Dr. John Sanford, retired professor from Cornell University, has done brilliant work in the field of genetics. His research and studies have led him to refute “The Primary Axiom” upon which modern...
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Inspired Book Reports: Lapbooking Where the Red Fern Grows
A fun, creative way to do book reports–it’s called a lapbook, or a folder full of mini-books to organize the main ideas and story elements of literature. The lapbook can be the whole book report for...
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One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp: A Review
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp A book review by Jen One Thousand Gifts is the beginning, a game of sorts, to list one thousand things in life for which to...
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Kenneth Grahame’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn chapter from The Wind in the Willows is just gorgeous, sheer magic. First published in England in 1908, this classic talking-animal book includes lovable...
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A Package from England!
I really was like a kid at Christmas yesterday! My friend Anita Mathias, a writer and blogger from Oxford, sent me the movie Être et Avoir, an award-winning French film that we’d discussed, and it...
View ArticleThe Brothers Karamozov and Me
What was I thinking? What can I even say about Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamozov except that never again will I commit to write about such a sweeping novel with ideas so intricately laid down...
View ArticleAdventures in Contentment by David Grayson: Review
A forgotten treasure of a book, I haphazardly stumbled on this yellowed century-old copy at a little coffee shop and found it stuffed with sincere and thoughtful observations of life along with...
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