Dewey's Treehouse

First posted August 2010 "In our age of calculators and computers, we must question how much time even good students of arithmetic sh...

First posted July 2005. The Apprentice was thirteen, Ponytails was almost eight, and Crayons (Lydia) was four. Crayons: Let's play Eye...

First posted August 2005. Ponytails was almost eight, and Crayons (Lydia) was four. This morning Ponytails and I were reading "T...

1. Can you believe we're rolling in to the Labor Day weekend? What's a project you'll labor over this fall? Getting a new ...

"Consider the trend toward numbers in light of our relationship to God. Metrics are quantitative and not qualitative, so they measure ...

First posted July 2007, somewhat edited this time around. One blog leads to another: the always-thoughtworthy Wittingshire blog posted a q...

First posted August 2007 (Update, September 2012:  Yes, Natural Science Through the Seasons has been reprinted!)   (Update, December 2010:...

(The 10 x 10 Wardrobe Challenge was originally created by Stylebee) Lawren Harris, Lake Simcoe I didn't intend to base this m...

1. Did you watch the solar eclipse? Your thoughts? Sun Chips, Moon Pies, Starburst candies, a Blue Moon beer, a Sunkist orange, or a Milk...

First posted July 2011 Seen in the New York Times Book Review:  Harry V. Jaffa's review   of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (trans...

1. Do your actions match your words? Elaborate. Does anybody ever do everything the way they want to and say to? I know St. Paul had...

...sometimes we get hot-air balloons too.

"Perfection is highly overrated and you are working with pieces you love, so it will be hard to pick the wrong items." ~~ Courtne...

1. The last thing Mr. Fixit fixed was a) Mama Squirrel's favourite Charlotte Mason souvenir pen that needed refilling b) a little ...

By way of catching up, here's a quiz for you to take about the new Treehouse and the Squirrels who do or don't live here now. See ho...

Recycled iron owl made in India, sold at Ten Thousand Villages.

...we really get clouds.

1. Growing up, were you close to your grandparents? Tell us one or two specific things you remember about them. I've written about m...