Category: Challenges

It’s Complicated

Classical education comprises three stages of development; the Grammar stage, the Logic stage and the Rhetoric stage.  Put simply, the grammar stage is learning the vocabulary of a subject.  Learning  is much more manageable when using this process. On the subject of forgiveness, if you put a hundred theologians, psychologists, counselors, monks (you know what I mean) in a room together and ask them about forgiveness, you will get a hundred different opinions. Google forgiveness and you will get the usual suspects. Links that tell you that you must forgive because: You are strong. You deserve peace. It leads to understanding....

Spiders

Ever since my kids were born I took the advice of the honest Moms who said, “Nap every time they do.” Littles get up extremely early and wake you up constantly during the night. In order not to be a raging psychotic Mom – the naps were vital for me. I thought I would get a short season when I could go back to a more typical sleep pattern but it never happened. I ended up with a six-year-old at the same time I had a 13-year-old. If you don’t have kids, 13 is when they start staying up really late;...

Wanting

“Sex, drugs and rock and roll.” I believe I first heard that expression when I was in middle school. That was about the time I was introduced to the tragic story of a young girl in the novel Go Ask Alice.  It details her fall into drug abuse and the resulting sexual abuse she suffered.  She makes it home and gets a new chance at life in the novel but, devastatingly, the (purported) actual girl the novel was based on did not live to see the book published.  I sometimes think that book steered me clear of the temptation to use...