Ready or not, a new year has begun. It is always an odd sensation to try to grasp the concept that one year of life is closing and another opening as the seconds tick away in the usual daily manner. Happy New Year to you all! Our family left the old year behind by recounting with one another… Read More Resolving to Read Anew
I picked up an old habit this past year that I have had in former years, but have neglected in recent ones: keeping a list of all the books I have read. I find it not only to be a good record for future reference, but a picture of my personal interests and pursuits and… Read More For the Record
As you probably know, each month we post an updated list of living books we have for sale. Selling these books keeps our library doors open. Our library keeps homeschool families reading quality literature. Last January we had a special “clean off the shelves” sale and it was so successful we have decided to repeat that event. Basically, the more… Read More First Book Sale of the Year
Last Friday night my husband and I found ourselves home with just the boys and nothing urgent on the calendar. Bliss. What to do? We picked up one of the Christmas books I had pulled from the library to try to get to this season: The Christmas Stove by Alta Halverson Seymour. We finished it an hour… Read More Simple Truths
Advent has begun. Busy preparations of all kinds are underway. Before we know it, Christmas will be here, and with it the days of Advent will have flown by again. One of the ways we savor this season is reading a new Christmas story as a family every year. Actually, not new in any way except to us, as… Read More Our Favorite Christmas Story Ever
Our monthly Book Sale has been updated! Please visit our Book Sale Page to browse our current selection of living books for sale.
Some of you will remember the Homeschool Librarians Conference we were privileged to host here in Virginia last June. I wrote on how that conference came about and afterward shared some of the highlights of that event. Because of the increasing interest of homeschool families to offer their book collections to other homeschoolers in their own communities, the general lack… Read More Speaking of Libraries
I heard from a number of you when I approached the complex subject of “what” our children should be reading and intend to continue probing it. For the home educating parent, reading is undeniably crucial. Beyond the challenge of our children accomplishing the actual skill of reading the written word, there is that immense ocean of written material–making choices about… Read More More Hard Thinking about Easy Reading
The stories we hold dearest are those that have both plummeted us to the depths of anxiety and despair as we suffered through the characters’ difficulties and disappointments, sorrows and setbacks. Our hearts fill with compassion as we enter into both woes and triumphs with them, feel their excruciating pain of loss and/or deprivation, their… Read More A Thanksgiving Story
There is a comment I hear frequently from parents in our library which I have pondered quite a bit and wonder what to say when it is used in conversation. I find the response to this question not to be so easy to articulate, but am going to venture out in hopes that some brave and honest souls out there… Read More Hard Thinking About Easy Reading