Hi Laurie, I found your blog a few years back and have found both it and your website to be a tremendous help with my homeschooling venture. I have one son who is now 9 years old and has disliked writing since we started schooling. This perplexed me because I can remember writing for fun […]

Toodles is in Arabia — about to ride a camel with the Bedouins.

Today Toodles is with Mr. Basaj in Berlin at Potsdamer Platz.

Nathaniel and Helena are in Arkansas today photographing a wedding.

Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn (retail price is $34) — $15 Handy English Encoder Decoder: All the Spelling and Phonics Rules You Could Ever Want to Know by Harvey Bluedorn (retail price is $15) — $7 Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline by Harvey […]

How to Confirm Autism-Vaccination Link

I’m wondering if this could be true about Facebook?

Hi Laurie, I found your name on the internet with your brief review of William Clark Russell’s John Holdsworth: Chief Mate and The Wreck of the Grosvenor. I’ve been collecting this author’s books for a few years now and I’m trying to write a book (the first, I believe) on his life and work. I’ve […]

Books on tape from Blackstone Audiobooks Men of Iron — Pyle The Bronze Bow — Speare Jo’s Boys — Alcott Sufferings in Africa — Captain James Riley The Captivity of the Oatman Girls — Lorenzo Oatman The Shining Company — Sutcliff The Elusive Pimpernel — Orczy The Poison Belt — Doyl The Histories — Herodotus […]

II Chronicles 20:15-17 … Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, … Thus says the LORD to you: Do not be afraid nor dismayed … for the battle is not yours, but God’s…You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still … for the LORD is with you.