I love history, especially Philippine history. But it wasn't a love that took root and blossomed at school, with its emphasis on dates, names, places, and exams that asked me to "enumerate xyz." No. It was a love awakened at home by Ambeth Ocampo's wit and humor in “Rizal Without The Overcoat” when I was in high school. It was a fascination that grew with Sionil F. Jose’s … [Read more...]
Leading Little Ones to Mary
It's the merry month of May, a month celebrating mothers. Most of all, it's the month we honor the patron saint of all mothers, Mama Mary. How timely also, that we celebrate the centennial of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima on May 13. While we often try to make a Marian activity during this month, it is this event that made me more intentional about planning activities … [Read more...]
Living books… books that live in your heart
I’ve always loved books, old ones especially. I treasured the classics that I grew up with. I've even started to pass some of them on to my daughter, yellowed pages and all. See above! In homeschooling my kids, I was naturally and inevitably drawn to materials and curricula that make use of books with great literary power. We gobbled up the books in "Five in a Row" (FIAR). … [Read more...]
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