I picked up Evangelical Is Not Enough for the intriguing, if also somewhat off-putting, title and my interest in the subject – I have a category dedicated to books about the Church this year. So far, I have learned about the Reformation from a Catholic perspective, Eastern Orthodoxy from a Reformed perspective, and listened to… Continue Reading
The Simple Woman’s Daybook for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
For Today Looking out my window…actually, sitting on the patio – it’s a lovely, puffy-cloud summer day. I am thinking…I don’t usually write daybook posts on Tuesday, but I didn’t get around to it yesterday. I am thankful…this is our last week of school before an eight-week summer break. One of my favorite things…sunset walks.… Continue Reading
The Simple Woman’s Daybook for May 30, 2022
For Today Looking out my window…actually, I’m sitting out on the patio while typing this – my favorite place to be in the spring and summer, despite the bug bites. I am thinking…of how to savor these summer months. No VBS for us this year, and even though it’s only a week, I’m thankful to… Continue Reading
Book Notes: The Faerie Queene
Thanks to David Timson’s excellent narration of the audiobook and Kelly Cumbee’s class at the House of Humane Letters, I finished Edmund Spenser’s long, beautiful, and sometimes confusing poem today. I still don’t pretend to understand everything or get all the allusions to myths and such, but it is not one to read or listen… Continue Reading
Book Notes: The Shores of the True Love
Tomorrow, I will finish reading Dante’s Divine Comedy along with 100daysofdante.com! I have found Paradise to be the most challenging part to comprehend, but the video lectures and the incentive to finish by Easter have helped me to keep going. 🙂 I haven’t saved many quotes from the Divine Comedy for my commonplace journal, but… Continue Reading
Book Notes: Decisions and Dialogue
“Comrades,” he said, “I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are… Continue Reading
The Simple Woman’s Daybook for Valentine’s Day 2022
For Today Looking out my window…dark and cold I am thinking…about what to write and all the other things I need to do. 😉 I am thankful…that after a painful break-up this spring, this young man came into her life, and now they are engaged and starting their own business! One of my favorite things…hearing… Continue Reading
The Simple Woman’s Daybook for January 10, 2022
For Today Looking out my window…cold and dark. I am thinking…it’s hard to believe it’s 2022 already! I am thankful…we and our friends who got covid at the same time seem to be mostly over it. It wasn’t fun, but it could have been worse. One of my favorite things…winter sunsets. I am creating…new knitted… Continue Reading
Books and More Books
I have enjoyed seeing others’ reading plans and possibilities and listening to recent podcast episodes from The Literary Life and Close Reads where the hosts shared their favorite (and least favorite) books from the past year. So, I thought I would share my categories for the 2022 Scholé Sisters 5×5 challenge with the books I’m… Continue Reading
Books Read in 2021
I surpassed my goal of 60 books by 7 and completed my doubled version of the Schole Sisters’ 5×5 reading challenge, so it was a good reading year. Here are my favorites from each of my categories for the reading challenge and a list of all the books I read with the ratings I gave… Continue Reading