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My Complete 2021 Book List
Introduction This blog post contains a complete list of all the books I read in 2021. I finished all the books I began reading this year except for two for various reasons, which I listed next to them on my book list. This brings me to a total of 32 books read this year. As in past years, I read more fiction than non-fiction, but the non-fiction books I read I generally found helpful and encouraging, or informative and interesting, depending on the genre. My book list doesn’t include the children’s books I read out loud to the kids, just the books I read on my own or initiated reading…
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The Day My Van Locked Me Out
I was eight months pregnant, and it was the Friday before Easter. I woke up that morning excited to go into school without any students present. I worked with some especially fun women—they understood the benefits of learning through play and applied that idea to every area of their lives. We did the work we needed to do: tidying up the classroom and getting crafts ready for the next week. We also did work we didn’t need to do: catch up on the exciting events we’d missed in each other’s lives during the last week and sip coffee from my French press. We even got to wear jeans. That morning,…
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How to Connect Education and Emotions [with help from C.S. Lewis]
I recently started reading The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. I had a feeling I would enjoy the book, and so far that’s true! I staunchly believed as a young person that I could not understand philosophy. These days I enjoy philosophy more and more, as you can probably tell from my blog posts–and I find that I can understand most of it! I attribute a lot of my joy in understanding philosophy to R.C. Sproul. He made philosophy accessible and relatable to those who felt intimidated by it. Brian and I watched some of his series “The Consequences of Ideas” when Ligonier ministries offered their material for free…