What is a Well-Educated Heart?
Recently, a dear mom friend of mine introduced me to The Libraries of Hope founded by Marlene Peterson. I am striving to provide my...
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Cecily Creighton
- Mar 13
- 3 min
True Education
“Education is not a subject, and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.” G. K. Chesterton There are...
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- Feb 20
- 3 min
Bike and Book and Family
by I grew up in a small town in northeastern Utah. It was pretty idyllic. I see now that it was the last window of a certain way of life...
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Corliss Jacobs
- Feb 20
- 6 min
Patron Thief of the Bread of Life
By Corliss Jacobs I have often heard it said that the right books have a way of finding their way to the right person. This is the case...
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- Jan 31
- 3 min
2023 - Where will I go? Who will I meet? What will I learn?
The new year has begun! The new year has begun! I have made the 2023 heading in my reading notebook. I have carefully numbered the first...
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Shelley Colton | Vice President, MomSquad
- Jan 17
- 2 min
Knowing Who Represents you in a Representative Government
"There's an app for that!" In our hypertech world, there seems to be an app for just about everything from count-downs to menstrual cycle...
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Natalie Lynch
- Dec 22, 2022
- 4 min
Days Worth Celebrating: January
We Made It! Another year around the sun! Congrats, everyone; job well done. Now let’s do it again! It is a new year. Time for new...
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- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
The Joy of Revisiting
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” – C.S. Lewis I have been reading “The Collapse of Parenting: How...
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- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
Book Review: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
My friend Kim recommended this book for a book club read, and I was intrigued by the title. Set in Nigeria, the words on the pages of...
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Ellen Wheeler
- Nov 11, 2022
- 8 min
Duck and Cover in 2022
By Ellen Wheeler Dear MomSquad, I picked up my 10 year old son from school the other day and (out of habit) I asked him how his day had...
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Shelley Colton | Vice President, MomSquad
- Oct 7, 2022
- 7 min
Beware the "Crazy Ladies!"
Ghosts, goblins and monsters can be scary for sure, but sometimes the scariest thing we face are the crazy ladies lurking just beneath...
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- Aug 17, 2022
- 4 min
A Purposeful Life
It’s been an interesting month in my reading life. I am teaching several new subjects in the upcoming school year, and I have spent most...
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Ellen Wheeler
- Aug 15, 2022
- 8 min
Dust Off the Backpack
Time to buy an apple. One for the teacher and one to pack in your kid's school lunch. The lazy days of summer are giving way to the swirl...
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- Jul 14, 2022
- 3 min
Parenting Is Hard Work
It's not all rainbows and roses, but it’s not all angst and anger either.
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Shelley Colton | Vice President, MomSquad
- Jul 6, 2022
- 6 min
The 12 People You Raise
It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a mother to raise a village.
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