Since my regular doctor recently got very concerned over my slightly high cholesterol, and prescribed for me a very strict 6-month diet, I decided to research the whole cholesterol thing myself (it actually started in an effort to find a ready-planned diet online or in a book so I ...

The two towers thought to be the inspiration for Tolkien are located in Birmingham and now available for touring!

      Sometimes the kids come up with the best unschooling moments. This month we had an impromptu unit study--bookmaking! It started when the three younger kids were all playing together, imagining that they were elves attending elven school. They had discovered an old book of Sara Teasdale's poems, which read to them ...

Here are a bunch of books--part of the Library of Spiritual Classics, written by believers throughout the ages who have really known and grasped the truths of God. To know the Lord more, read the words of those who have. The Spiritual Guide and any others by Michael Molinos The Song of the Bride, Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ, ...

A friend asked me, in response to my original post entitled "What Is This Thing Called Church Life?", if I found what I was looking for once I joined my home church. I would have to say a resounding YES! A huge thing that has changed since I've joined church life is my perspective. For some reason, even though I grew up in the ...

I'm tremendously enjoying myself through Beverly Lewis's series "Abram's Daughters" right now, and I can't put them down. She sets her novels among the Amish in Lancaster County, where she grew up. With these books, you not only get quality hard-to-put-down literature, but you get a peek at life among the Amish. ...

Watching the BBC TV show "The Good Neighbors" has gotten me into exploring self-sufficiency again. I just finished a book entitled The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour. It's a great read with lots of various sections and basic know-how to learn such things as crop rotation, growing all of your own produce, ...

I just finished an awesome little book about one woman's spiritual struggle and adventure in the 1940s & 50s in Chicago. Her name is Genie Price and she became somewhat famous from her writing and radio work. She had been living her own self-centered life, and always did things to extremes--she sounds so much like me! But the Lord ...

You can pre-order Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows either from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or from Borders. If you get it from Borders, you can also choose a free bumper sticker of your choice--one says "Trust Snape" and the other "Snape Is A Very Bad Man". I'm ordering from Amazon.com so that the book is ...

I decided to make my own (manual) whereabouts clock for our family. I simply got an unfinished oval plaque of wood from the craft store, along with 6 clock hands, some small round metal & cellophane tags (6) (although the metal and paper tags would have been better), and a sheet of circular clear bubble stickers. I finished the wood by ...