Harvey buys me flowers most every week.

Thanks to Ed Rodatus for making this tract available.

Edward Payson, D.D. was born July 25, 1783 in Rindge, New Hampshire, where his father was a distinguished clergyman. For the last twenty years of his life, Edward was the pastor of The Second Church in Portland, Maine, where he died October 22, 1827, at the age [...]

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.” [...]

This week’s Carnival of Homeschooling is over at Sprittibee.

New texts have been added to the DVD which accompanies Ancient History from Primary Sources:
Cassell’s Latin-English / English-Latin Dictionary
White’s Latin-English / English-Latin Dictionary
A Complete Latin Course for the First Year by Albert Harkness
Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D’Ooge
A Latin Primer by H. C. Nutting
New Latin Grammar by Charles E. Bennett
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Helena’s flowers from this summer

Walter Langley (1852 - 1922)
English artist. Born to a very large family near the slums of Birmingham, Langley started his artistic career at fifteen as an apprentice to a lithographer. At twenty-one he won a scholarship to South Kensington and studied design. Later he turned to painting in oils and finally to watercolor. His [...]

My niece, Arianna Anderson

Stephen and Kerenza Buttle reading in the village of Letcombe Bassett, Oxfordshire.

I haven’t been able to post much lately. Harvey and I traveled to Virginia to attend a barn dance and then on to East Tennessee to give seminars with a particular famous person. While at the barn dance, someone tricked me into eating some stuff out of a very large vat — they said it [...]