Dewey's Treehouse

Even Barbie needs to clean out her closet sometimes. After all, she's been shopping for years. List of "33 Things To Eliminate Fr...

Edited from a post of February, 2008 Someone at church handed me a book to read called  Happiness™  by Will Ferguson (Penguin Books, 2002)...

Televisions over dentists' chairs seem to be just a given thing these days (can you imagine, says one who thought dentists offering head...

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsi...

The Deputy Headmistress has a few well-chosen words about allowing children to climb the library shelves , so to speak.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 The Fashion Revolution began because of a recent tragedy.  It wasn't the first one, and it...

First posted April, 2011. Note from the original post: "The focus of  this week's Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival , hosted at  Fisher...

 Violets Periwinkle Tulips-to-be Rhubarb Dandelions, just a few so far More violets.

If you like listening to podcasts: Liz Cottrill recently interviewed Nancy Kelly on how to teach Plutarch's Lives.

So far this week I've tried to include posts on both where clothes come from and where they go afterwards. But I'm the last person w...

Shop window on "Mr. Selfridge" At the beginning of the first episode of "Mr. Selfridge," Harry Gordon Selfridge, ...