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The Story of Rose (A True Story)
Rose sat in the newly-packed dirt surrounded by green foliage. Her bright pink petals, imbued with shades of red, caught the light from the rising sun. She lifted up her head and felt the sun’s rays begin to warm the dewdrops that had settled in between the folds of her petals. A breeze gently shook Rose and the dewdrops slid down her petals and onto the ground. A small group of walking trees, with flailing limbs, high-pitched voices, and stringy petals and leaves, rumbled over the big, rough stone that bordered her garden to the west and climbed into the moving gray rock, a process Rose observed each time the…
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Wrestling with Disappointment and Finding Hope in God’s Faithfulness
This summer wasn’t at all like I expected it to be. I had big plans for this summer. I was going to finish my sci-fi/fantasy/adventure book. (I wrote one chapter.) I was going to participate in “Writing with Jeeves and Wooster” through The Habit. (I attended one lecture and did none of the writing exercises.) I was going to see all the friends I didn’t get to see very often during the school year. (I saw one friend twice.) I was going to spend every moment I could with the kids, soaking up the family time like a sponge in a wading pool. (I ended getting distracted by my iPad…
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Quotes from “Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West”
I found the book Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West, by Edward Everett Dale, on eBay as Brian and I were searching for living books for homeschool last year. Ever since I read the Little House on the Prarie books and the Kirsten American Girl Doll books as a child, the Old West has fascinated me–homesteaders in particular. What I like best about this particular book are the beautiful language Edward Everett Dale employs and the fact that he lived in a small town, surrounded by homesteaders, Native Americans, and cowhands, at the turn of the last century. He has first-hand experience of what life was like…