Ray and I returned Tuesday night from one of the most encouraging weeks of our eighteen years of working with homeschoolers through Notgrass History. We went to two homeschool conferences in Colorado Springs. The first conference was a meeting with homeschool curriculum publishers and others ... View Post
A Prompt to Pray
While Ray and I explored the little seaside town of Bar Harbor, Maine, we went inside St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, established in 1876, to see its ten Tiffany windows. A brochure inside gave us permission to take pictures of the windows but unfortunately stated that we could not share them ... View Post
Perfectly Calm
Most nights during dinner or sometime near dinner time, our young Irish cruise ship captain spoke to us passengers over the loudspeaker. In his friendly manner, he told us about weather forecasts, problems the ship had encountered, and details about cruising on the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and ... View Post
A Thanksgiving Story
During our South Dakota adventure in October, we made a visit to the world's only Corn Palace in Mitchell. Here is one of this year's many amazing corn pictures at the Corn Palace, an appropriate image for us since we had just left the Shrine of Democracy that morning and seen the wildlife of Custer ... View Post
Debate, Prayer, and the Power of God
I signed up for one -- just one -- political email list and now my inbox is flooded with emails from various groups. Notgrass History never shares our email lists with anybody, but that certainly isn't true of everybody! Whew! The other day I got a long survey. I scrolled down past question after ... View Post
The Good Ole Days Are Possible in Your Home
Yesterday Ray and I drove a couple of hours from Gainesboro to his hometown of Columbia, Tennessee, for a celebration. His brother Alan drove up from Tullahoma. The event was the 80th anniversary of the opening of Riverside Elementary School, alma mater of Ray and Alan. Ray saw old friends, ... View Post