Who Needs A Miracle?

Do you spend your days wishing for miracles? Are miracles rare in your life? Today, I would like to recommend a book, Miracles On Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen. This book was published in 1956 and received the Newberry Award in 1957. It is written for children,...

Little Pilgrim’s Progress: A Review

In my last post I mentioned that I had only read excerpts from John Bunyan’s book, The Pilgrim’s Progress. The reason is that it was so hard for me to understand, and although I tried reading it several times, I could never keep up with the allegorical...

Do You Have Questions About Dinosaurs And The Bible?

In our family we consider the Jurassic Park movie to be great summer fun. There’s nothing better than swimming, then coming in for snacks and a scary dinosaur movie. Of course there are many more “Jurassic” movies since Jurassic Park was made but the...

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Book Review

Since this is the beginning of the week of Christmas, I wanted to review a book that would be fun to read to your children, or grandchildren this week. Hint: it’s a fun book for the adults as well. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, by Barbara Robinson,...

FEVER 1793: Book Review

FEVER 1793, is a young adult, fictionalized account, of the yellow fever pandemic written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published in 2002. This copy was borrowed from my daughter’s extensive library. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down. This is a...

Learning to Deal With Difficult People From Classic Literature

Have you ever suffered from the insults of rude people? Have you let them berate you, when you are innocent of everything they are claiming you have done? Been there. Experienced that. During these times, I have never been able to come up with anything to say back. I...