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14 Apr

Yesterday morning after breakfast, I smiled as I thought about the conversations around our house. During the morning, Ray had been telling me details from the biography he is reading about President Hoover and from the book he is listening to about President Eisenhower. For days I've been sharing ... View Post

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Living History

Powerful Lights

13 Apr

It's tempting to long for the good ol' days and easy to forget that this world is not our home. Ray wisely pointed out in his YouTube lesson on Sunday that Jesus used the following vivid descriptions to describe the generation He encountered when He was on Earth: evil adulterous ... View Post

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My Heart to Yours

Lasting Change Only Comes with Changed Hearts

12 Apr

This past weekend I was wrestling with a lesson for America the Beautiful. I've already covered American political history from the days of native nations through 9/11 and the presidency of George W. Bush. My next task is to write a lesson about the last dozen years of American politics. I keep ... View Post

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Living History

Plant, Water, Pray, Trust

11 Apr

Click, click, click go the keys under my fingers as I struggle forward to meet my writing deadlines. When I got ready to start my workday yesterday, I set a timer for an hour. When the timer went off, I got up from my desk and climbed the stairs or took a five-minute walk—anything to get me out of ... View Post

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Generation to Generation

The Teeming Waters and Sky of the Gulf of Mexico

10 Apr

Yesterday I worked on the lesson "God Created the Gulf of Mexico" for America the Beautiful. This is a brand new lesson for this update, so I enjoyed learning about the world's largest gulf  and the Gulf Coast of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, which some appropriately call ... View Post

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Success in Her 70s

9 Apr

I love that Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book at age 65. Anna Mary Robertson was another American woman who gained fame late in life. She was well-known when I was a child and I was an admirer of her work. Anna Mary Robertson began a new career at age 76. Anna was born before the first ... View Post

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