Protected: Health Update

Most of my Oregon readers know that a total score, at or above the 15th percentile, means your student has made satisfactory progress. If so, you may proceed teaching your child for another year without involvement by the state. The 15th percentile score represents a student’s ranking compared to students nationwide. The scale is 1 (low) to…

Hello readers! Last January I began writing  a series of reflections, 15 in all, on what it means or might look like to live Memento Mori in the context of the stations of the cross.   I’ve summarized the takeaways from each of my reflections below. Each one is clickable and will take you to the post…

Why would someone say that  frisbees, microwave ovens, and Velcro are “strange bedfellows”? To answer this, you’d have to know their origins, the stories behind the inventions.   In the 1940’s Yale students sailed pie tins through the air and played catch.  Ten years later, Walter Frederick Morrison, a flying-saucer enthusiast, improved on the idea. Morrison and…

On a weekly basis, he sees a man who comes to an outreach ministry for support and help.  The visit always begins a little awkwardly– the man smells and looks like he just arrived from a campsite.  Actually that’s pretty close to the truth; hours before he was dozing in a sleeping bag.   He and…

I’m a subscriber to Michael Easter’s substack . Most of his topics center around fitness and health, but in his latest post, he presents some new social media research that is relevant to educating our children. Last Friday he pointed out that social media use among children has been linked to mental health issues, depression in particular….

Does looking at a crucifix make you uncomfortable?  It does me. Most of us would say we prefer to look at an empty cross. One person I spoke to at a church I was visiting  pointed to the empty cross behind the pulpit. She enthusiastically exclaimed, “No crucifixes at this church, just empty crosses.  We…