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About the BookBook: Wagons WestAuthor: Caryl McAdooGenre: Historical Christian RomanceRelease date: November 22, 2022In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.Besides the God-fearing, decent folks seeking new beginnings, adventurers, miners, risk-takers, fugitives, perverts, and runaways alike—even royals—comprise a few of the characters in book one of the ‘New Beginnings Family Saga’ titled WAGONS WEST. The two-thousand-mile journey is wrought with danger, trials, troubles and tragedies, deprivations, and of course, romance, but the lure of gold and a fresh start urges the sojourners on to the Promised Land!Blaire Beechy, a widow with two almost grown daughters, Adeline and Beatrice, and...

The funeral for slain Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Darnell Calhoun is Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. (Courtesy of Riverside County Sheriff’s Department) A church full of law enforcement officers, family and friends is saying farewell Saturday, Jan. 21, to Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Darnell Calhoun. The service, at Abundant Living Family Church in Rancho Cucamonga, is underway after a 50-mile procession from a Murrieta mortuary that saw hundreds line streets and 15 Freeway overpasses to pay their respects. To begin the service, Daniel Johnson sang “You are Holy.” RELATED: Hundreds watch funeral procession for slain Deputy Darnell Calhoun In his remarks,...

Utah has jumped on the voucher train as they railroad an education savings account bill through the House, tying it to a call for raises for the state's teachers.It's not particularly subtle. The language is right here, where the bill says "the amount of the salary adjustment for each full-time educator is:"(i) if Title 53F, Chapter 6, Part 4, Utah Fits All Scholarship Program, is funded and ineffect, $8,400; or(ii) if Title 53F, Chapter 6, Part 4, Utah Fits All Scholarship Program, is not fundedand in effect, $4,200. Utah voters rejected vouchers back in 2007. Heck, the House voted down...

http://melissawiley.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Bonny-Glen-Hauge-and-Fillyjonk-post-012023.m4a   I want to end the week with a few notes about our homeschooling high points. Olav Hauge was a big hit, and apart from a side-trip to Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art,” we roamed through my Hauge books every day. “This Is the Dream” provoked intense discussion— This is the dream we carry through the world that something fantastic will happen that it has to happen that time will open by itself that doors shall open by themselves that the heart will find itself open that mountain springs will jump up that the dream will open by itself that...

Have you had the chance to LISTEN to my homeschool day in the life? Check out Ep 103 of the Simple Homeschool podcast w/ my 18-year-old son! Weekend homeschool links: The Beginner’s Guide to The Mysterious Benedict Society Book Series Books About Ghana for Kids When you feel like a beginner in the life of faith What’s Your Creative Personality Type? (a quiz!) 8 years ago on Simple Homeschool: Melissa’s homeschool day in the life (with a 1, 4, 7, 8, 11, and 14-year-old) In case you missed it this week: Our 2023 Homeschool Day in the Life Series is...