One of the most famous feats in an airplane took place on May 20-21, 1927. Just 23 1/2 years after the Wright brothers made the world's first successful airplane flight on a beach near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At ... View Post
Honoring Their Fathers and Mothers
One of my reference books, as I am writing the new America the Beautiful, is a children's book about presidents' mothers. I don't particularly like the book. It is too disrespectful in its attempts at humor for my taste, but it does give me interesting tidbits that I can pursue from more reliable ... View Post
Anna, A Homeschool Heroine
Anna Tuthill Symmes was born in New Jersey almost a year before members of the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. Her father, Judge John Cleves Symmes, became a colonel in the Continental Army. Anna's mother died on her baby girl's first birthday. Anna's father cared for ... View Post
John Jay
John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Like all of us, he was a multi-faceted human being. Jay was a devout man in a devout family. Each morning the family came together to worship God. Every evening at nine o’clock, Jay read his family a chapter from the Bible. Jay's ... View Post
An Uncomplicated Education
This past weekend I read an article on a popular medical website. The topic was the safety of reopening schools. The article listed these benefits of children being in school: education, child development, free lunch and other meals, behavioral health support, and community support. You and I know ... View Post
Good, Evil, and Making Peace
Ray has been teaching from Ephesians during our Wednesday evening YouTube lessons. Ephesians 2:1-2 talks about the time when we were "dead in our trespasses and sins" and about "the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience" (Ephesians 2:1-2). As I read those verses recently, a certain ... View Post
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