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  • Keep Your Love On

    Keep Your Love On

    Danny Silk, 2013 Connection, Communication and Boundaries Keep Your Love On explains how you can manage yourself and so build connection with other people. This book was recommended to me from a teacher at Raising Hope Ranch. This book is different from most relationship books I have read. It has a Christian perspective, but doesn’t

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  • We Need You, Teachers

    We need you, teachers. Who else is going to teach our children the three Rs with such enthusiasm? Certainly not the moms! We tried that during c***d, and no one wants to go back. Plus, you all do such a great work! It’s summertime and you may not feel like being bothered with saying yes

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  • The Tornado

    The Tornado

    Now summer was here. The weather was very hot. Heat waves rose from the pasture. Every pig lay in the mud hole. They would not get out till evening. The dog would not leave the shade of the cottonwood. I didn’t move either, except to turn the pages of the book in my hand or

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  • Kurland St. Mary mystery series (and an explanation of cozy mysteries)

    Kurland St. Mary mystery series (and an explanation of cozy mysteries)

    Catherine Lloyd, 2013-2021 Cozy Mystery This series is regency-set historical mysteries. They are all set in the rich countryside out of London. In Death Comes to the Village, the first book of the series, a wounded soldier and the rector’s daughter find strange happenings in the small village of Kurland St. Mary. Major Robert Kurland

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  • The Ideal Life

    The Ideal Life

    Remember those pictures of pastoral beauty with farms dotting the countryside in every Ideals? Small (by today’s standards) silos proudly watch over the farmstead. Trees mark yards and creeks. Roads with miniscule tractors and pickups forever driving on them… All the crops are growing… Rivers wind through the countryside…. Farmyards are mowed and trimmed… The

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  • 50 Books with Mature Protagonists

    50 Books with Mature Protagonists

    Children typically like to read books with protagonists a couple years older than they are. This hopefully teaches them something about what life will be like as they grow older. I have been a typical reader most of my life, until one day I noticed that the heroines had gotten stuck somewhere under forty, while

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