Author Archives: Janice
Potpourri: Singleness, Clotheslines and Loss at Christmas
How Not to Help All the Single Ladies: I am a single lady. The summer I graduated from college I read John Fischer’s booklet A Single’s Personal Identity. I had dated someone in college that ended after college. That booklet … Continue reading
Holiday Turkey Hunt: Win a Scentsy
If you don’t want to fight the crowds of Black Friday, sit at home and enter The WIC Project Holiday Turkey Hunt. There are great prizes packages and gift cards s well as a Amazon Gift Card Grand Prize. Enter … Continue reading
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Hurricane Sandy: Photographs
I live on the East Coast and was all ready for Hurricane Sandy. We were told there would be power outages so be prepared. We stocked up on food, water and batteries. We got the candles out. The rain came … Continue reading
Political Thought by Hunter Baker
Crossway has recently started publishing a new series of books called Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition. Over the coming months I plan to read each and review them. I started with Political Thought: A Student’s Guide by Hunter Baker as … Continue reading
Jacques Barzun: His Writings Influenced My Teaching
My sister, Karen introduced me to Jacques Barzun on a summer vacation in 2001. She had picked up his book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present at Bethany Bookstore and thought I … Continue reading
Potpourri: Caught My Eye This Week
Man Recycles Old Door Knobs into a Sparkling Replica of Van Gogh’s Starry Night – I love old door knobs and have some from the house my parents lived in after they were married and from the farmhouse of my … Continue reading
Mom, Alzheimers and Imago Dei
I have been absent from this blog for over a month – and what a month it has been. I started back to school teaching at a classical homeschool tutorial. I love my job and teach two classes: rhetoric and … Continue reading
The Birth of a Book
When I was a librarian at a PK – 8th grade school back in the late 80’s I went with another teacher to an area school about having students writing, illustrating and then presenting their own book. We saw how … Continue reading
Beautiful Norway Photography
This summer I went to Young Life’s Lake Champion Camp to spend a week as a guest. My sister, Diane was the camp director for the month of June. It was a family affair as my other sister and her … Continue reading
If You Love to Read (Sarah Ada sings Adele’s There’s a Fire)
I love books and think Adele is a great singer so I loved this video. The singer, Sarah Ada @SarahUkulele describes herself on Twitter as: “Ukulele playing, English teaching, hedgehog snuggling, bacon eating, book reading, koopa stomping, craft crafting, life … Continue reading
