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Happy incoming new year!

An early morning hike

So we got up early. Very early. 4:49 a.m. to be precise. But it was worth it to enjoy the beauty of God's creativity during a hike at state park.

More books for the book baskets

Mom and I had a pleasant trip to a used bookstore yesterday afternoon. As usual I spent more than I wanted on books!

Tough Love for Schools If God doesn't send me a husband any time soon, I'm interested in starting either a charter or privet school back home in the south. This looked like a good look at the current public school situation and some of the possible solutions.

Elizabeth Drue.

The Mystery of Maps

Maps. Whether a road map printed off the internet to insure your safe arrival at a new destination, or an ancient parchment recalling past history, maps are both part of our everyday and keepers of our past. Battles past, won and lost, the expansion of the freedom, the history of my native and adopted states, the chronicle of the rise and fall of cultures -- all this history can be concisely presented in a map. The present can also be presented in a map of something as tame as a road map. But the excitement of the future is also represented in a map when I see the places dream traveling and the people I'd love meeting there.

Past, present and future can all be portrayed. Such is the mystery of maps.

On a less fanciful and more practical note, back in high school Mom gave me school credit for completing this geography book. The unique idea of coloring the outline of a country helps one remember the shape of the country and also it's relation to other countries. The coloring book also contained the physical geography of the continent as well as a few historical maps of ancient empires. Perfect for either a supplemental or a course in and of itself, I rate it *****Five stars!

Elizabeth Drue.

From the book basket...

Mom found this treasure of a book for a couple of dollars during one of her book shopping trips: The Journey of English. It's the history of how the English language came to be. Before you write it off as a boring textbook, it's a delightful, beautifully written children's picture book. One could consider it a mini version of Winston Churchill's History of the English People because it tells of the various people-groups who became the history of the British Isles. Online it's fetching a pretty (big!) price, so if you ever come across it at a book sale, snatch up this prize!

From the book basket,

Elizabeth Drue.