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And now, a bit of Controversy
(Yes, I do capitalize words at random, like the perfectly wonderful A. A. Milne. No, I am not sorry. Let’s move on.) As a (oooh) Independant Fundamental Baptist (ooooh), I occasionally deal with...
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The Fundamental Home-Schooling Preacher’s Wife Movie Rating System
Or, F.H.S.P.W.M.R.S., for short, (if the government can abbreviate everything, so can I.) has been an idea I have been tinkering with for quite some time. It grates on my every last nerve that the MPAA...
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The Scandalous Power of the Great Story
Yup, send me to the Backslider's Pew Two movies, based on wildly successful literature written for children, are out right now: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II, which is being regarded as...
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Schoolish Thoughts: The Value of Silly Old Bears, and Hums
My seven-year old recited a poem (or, a hum, if you prefer…) of his own composition to me last night after supper (that’s dinner to you yankees) that brought tears to my eyes: “I love my mommy, and my...
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Weeds
"A weed is but an unloved flower." -Ellen Wheeler Wilcox "Weeds are nature's graffiti." -Janice Maeditere "But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming...
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Floral Purgatory
There’s a hell for flowers: the Walmart floral department. It’s a tragic juvenile detention center for young unwanted flowers who weren’t conceived in love, but in huge greenhouses, and then buried...
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In Which Two Baby Armadillos Wander Out of the Hundred Acre Wood and Wind Up...
(with profuse apologies to A. A. Milne…) One fine day, perhaps tomorrow, two orphaned young armadillos were trying their very best to follow directions they got from Owl, who had a reputation for being...
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Ericisms: The Ever-Expanding Eight-Year-Old Vocabulary
The boy’s inventing New Words: We started a new unit in science recently: geology. Eric is absolutely enthralled: there is an entire science devoted to rocks. He has abandoned his former goal of...
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In Which Rodalena Tries to Explain Indiana Law to Pooh Bear
One day, perhaps next Tuesday, when Pooh Bear and Rodalena were admiring the wildflowers blooming by the side of a Texas dirt road, Pooh asked, “Rho, where is Indiana?” “About a thousand miles...
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