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Why It’s Important for Christians to READ
Our little library is literally just that — quite little — but it has a generous attitude toward ordering inter-library loan books for patrons, and our family must use up a good portion of their budget each year. We read … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, books, Christian, Daily Life, devotional, Education, Encouragement, Faith, Family, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, religion, self-improvement, spirituality, Uncategorized
Tagged Bible, book, Christian, education, reading, TV
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You’re Not Too Dumb to Read the Bible Yourself
How much education does the average Christian need in order to be qualified to study the Bible? Within conventional, establishment Christianity — the kind overwhelmingly and depressingly practiced in countries like the one in which I was born and live, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Christian, Culture, Daily Life, devotional, Education, Faith, Family, fine art, home, homeschooling, Life, Lifestyle, painting, religion, self-improvement, spirituality
Tagged Bible, Christian, education, grammar, Steve Henderson, study
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Why Do You Homeschool?
Why do you homeschool? It’s a good question to ask, because why you do it in the first place will ultimately determine how you go about it. Years ago, we lived in a town where there were a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible study, confidence, curriculum, education, homeschool, parent teacher
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Please Stop Educating Me — I Want to Learn Something
I am one of the 1 percent. Nah, I’m not talking money; when it comes to that I’m in another 1 percent, you know, the ones who re-use plastic grocery bags as spontaneous suitcases for overnight trips. No, I am … Continue reading
The Weakness of PowerPoint
In order to extract maximum impact from today’s literary essay, you need to pretend that you’re sitting in a crowded room, staring at a PowerPoint presentation on the giant screen in front of you. You’re staring at a PowerPoint presentation … Continue reading
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Tagged college, education, parent, PowerPoint, student
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What Does It Take to Be an Expert?
I have no letters after my name. Okay, officially I have a B.A., which in today’s climate stands less for Bachelor of Arts as it does for Buy Additional — credits, tuition, college time — leading to more letters (like … Continue reading
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Tagged breastfeeding, education, expert, teenagers
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Are they Brats or Simply Bored Children?
In other words, they behaved like normal children in a 12 x 15 room with nothing in it but fishing magazines and a flat screen, and they didn’t sit still, and they weren’t quiet, and they didn’t just watch the movie and stop bothering people the way adults, trained to glue their eyes to the screen, expect them to. Continue reading
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Tagged active children, adults, art, artist, blogging, bored children, brats, Carolyn Henderson, children, culture, current events, dentist's office, dress, education, educational DVDs, flat screen, humor, kids will be kids, middle age, middle aged, no toys, normal, padded walls, painting, princess, reading by three, running software, Steve Henderson, toddler, two year old, wedding dress
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Sleeping Felines and Why They’re So Important
It’s amazing what you can learn by sitting on the porch all afternoon, watching the cats. Like this: cats sleep a lot. What is it — 18, 19 hours a day? I can understand why lions get exhausted, what with … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, back to school, beauty, blogging, boxer, boxer/lab, Carolyn Henderson, cat, chickens, Christian, clouds, culture, current events, daily life, deer, dixie, dog, dog chasing cats, dog chasing chickens, doing nothing, education, encouragement, family, garden, gatherings, getting nothing done, humor, lifestyle, middle age, middle aged, motherhood, news, Norwegian, painting, personal, random, reflections, relationships, ruby, sleeping cats, Steve Henderson, summer, waste of time, Xena the Warrior Princess
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How to Write a Resume — Part Two — What to Put in It
Many of us, when we’re first starting out, find ourselves scrabbling to find something, anything, about us or our experience that an employer would be interested in. The 16-year-old first launching into the work world lists the 4-H Livestock Show, the babysitting, and the steady paper route. The 44-year-old recently let-go middle manager does not.
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Tagged artist, business, education, employer, experience, middle age, middle aged, resume
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