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You Have to Want to Go There Pretty Badly

19 Jun

On Monday Ray and I headed home from our eighth homeschool convention in ten weeks. This time we were traveling with Nate, Mary Evelyn, and Clara. They had offered our curriculum at the Arizona state convention, while Ray and I had done the same at the state convention in Colorado. We decided to ... View Post

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Crossings

18 Jun

I love new experiences. My mother told me that when I was very little I never wanted to miss anything. That's still true. Traveling to conventions in California and Denver gave me opportunities for many new experiences. One thing I enjoyed was the unusual road signs warning us that some creature ... View Post

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Voices

17 Jun

As we were about to disembark from a shuttle bus at the Grand Canyon, our driver told us to go to the cement. I knew immediately that he was a southerner when I heard the word cement. He emphasized the first syllable and made the first e long. When we got off the bus, I asked him where he was from. ... View Post

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Happy Daddy’s Day

14 Jun

When I was in high school I wrote an essay about love. I said that the ultimate examples of love in my life were the love of my heavenly Father and the love of my daddy. For the last thirty-four years I have gotten to watch my dear husband be a devoted daddy. Then, I got to watch my son John become ... View Post

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Tell of the Wonders

13 Jun

In between conferences out west, we had time to spend a day at the Grand Canyon. We arrived early and stayed until the sun went down. Just before sunset, we arrived at the Desert View Watchtower, one of the structures that architect Mary Colter designed for the Grand Canyon in the 1930s. On the ... View Post

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Growing Anywhere

12 Jun

I am amazed at plants. The variety God created seems to be endless: tall saguaro cacti, tiny yellow buttercups, giant California redwoods, little purple violets. Plants are strong, too. Have you seen a sidewalk that is uneven because tree roots have pushed up the concrete? "The heavens declare ... View Post

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