
Learning Their Names
A couple of years ago, over the summer holidays, we explored a common feature of southern Victoria: the rock pools along the coast. Most of the bay coastline from...
A couple of years ago, over the summer holidays, we explored a common feature of southern Victoria: the rock pools along the coast. Most of the bay coastline from...
Mongolia has a beautiful sky. It’s big, it’s clear and in the 1990s, it was the place I loved to look. In the evenings the air would be crisp...
It was a tale of two skies that morning. In between my panting and my praise, I diverted from my morning’s walk to dodge the muddied...
Wonder creates a pause. We might marvel at the miracle of new life at a baby’s first cry. The fireworks of color painted across an open...
Today we finish Wonder by R. J. Palacio (free PDF version). But the question is, do we really every finish a book like this? Good new news, thanks to Kiera...
I have been looking forward to today's post since early May! When I announced our next seven books Velvet Ashes member Vivienne contacted me about the subject matter of...
After reading the first two sections of Wonder by R. J. Palacio (free PDF version), can understand why every person I know who has read it says, "You must...
Money was so tight my freshman year in college that my family cancelled Christmas. We were struggling financially, and the three jobs my dad was working afforded him only four...
Serving overseas often turns our Christmas traditions upside down and inside out. Scarves and snow and sparkly lights and conversations with extended family are no longer part of a normal...
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