S10E130: Celebrating America’s 250th in Books with Summer Smith
January 15, 2026I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let’s start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual. And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 1989 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: A Reasoned Patriotism by Dawn Duran Princess Alice by James Brough The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The American Patriot’s Almanac by William J. Bennett America 250 Series…
S10E129: Preparing Students for Life Beyond High School with Lani Siciliano
Here are we on the verge of that new life for our country which we all purpose, faced with infinite possibilities on either hand,––the vast range of knowledge and the vast educability of mind. Another certainty presents itself, that we…
S9E128: Life-long Learning Through Narration with Sheila Carroll
Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there, in every child’s mind, waiting to be discovered, and is not the result of any process of disciplinary education. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 232-233 Show Summary: Listen…
S9E127: The Charlotte Mason New England Community
Knowledge is not instruction, information, scholarship, a well-stored memory. It is passed, like the light of a torch, from mind to mind, and the flame can be kindled at original minds only. Thought, we know, breeds thought; it is as…
UncategorizedS9E126: Handel’s Messiah with Querida Thompson
And ever against eating cares,Lap me in soft Lydian airs,Married to immortal verse,Such as the meeting soul may pierce,In notes with many a winding boutOf linked sweetness long drawn outWith wanton heed and giddy cunning,The melting voice through mazes running,Untwisting…
S9E125: Part of the Great Story with Dr. Wilfred McClay
Being a land of hope may also mean, at times, being a land of disappointment. The history of the United States contains both. It is hard to have one without the other. Dr. Wilfred McClay, from Land of Hope Show…
S9E124: The AmblesideOnline Advisory on the Work of the Mother
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Elliot, The Four Quartets Show Summary: Listen Now: From Darkness…
S9E123: A Day in the Life with Little Ones with Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp
It would be well if we all persons in authority, parents and all who act for parents, could make up our minds that there is no sort of knowledge to be got in these early years so valuable to children…
UncategorizedS9E122: Wildwood Learning Center with Blossom Barden
A small English boy of nine living in Japan, remarked, “Isn’t it fun, Mother, learning all these things?Everything seems to fit into something else. The boy had not found out the whole secret; everything fitted into something within himself. Charlotte…
S9E121: MacDonald, Austen, and Shakespeare with Joyce MacPherson
I believe that to be the disciple of Christ is the end (or purpose) of being; that to persuade men to be his disciples is the end (or purpose) of teaching. George MacDonald, from Unspoken Sermons, “Justice” Show Summary: Listen…
S9E120: Morning Time for Moms, Pt. 8, Twenty Years of The Literary Ladies Book Club
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. P. G. Wodehouse Listen Now: Show Summary: Books and Links Mentioned: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Extraordinary Ordinary People…
