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Charles Lindbergh, A Mama’s Son

24 Nov

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

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Honoring Their Fathers and Mothers

27 Oct

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

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Anna, A Homeschool Heroine

28 May

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

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John Jay

26 May

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

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An Uncomplicated Education

18 May

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

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Good, Evil, and Making Peace

12 May

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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