February 19, 2021 Christmas in the Heart It is Christmas in the mansion,Yule-log fires and silken frocks.It is Christmas in the cottage,Mother’s filling little socks.It is Christmas on the highwayIn the…
December 19, 2020 Christmas Eve Our hearts tonight are open wide,The grudge, the grief, are laid aside;The path and porch are swept of snow,The doors unlatched; the hearthstones glow—No…
December 19, 2020 Christmas Long Ago It is Christmas in the mansion,Yule-log fires and silken frocks.It is Christmas in the cottage,Mother’s filling little socks.It is Christmas on the highwayIn the…
December 19, 2020 A Childs Christmas Song Lord, I’m just a little boy,Born one day like You,And I’ve got a mother dearAnd a birthday, too.But my birthday comes in spring,When the…
May 27, 2020 Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary Biography “WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING BOOKS KIDS LOVE, NOBODY DOES IT BETTER” –Ilene Cooper, Booklist Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville,…
May 15, 2020 The Apple Tree I stood beneath the apple tree.The apples were so good to see –Very high above my headI saw them shining, round and red. A…
April 20, 2020 The Child and the Crucifix: Poem The cross is tall,And I too smallTo reach His handOr touch His feet. But on the sandHis footprints I have found,And it is sweetTo…
April 20, 2020 Galumpagalooses: Resources Sketches: Galumpagalooses by Eloise Jarvis McGraw About the Author Eloise Jarvis McGraw, the only child of Geneviece Lucinda and Loy Hamilton Jarvis, was born…
April 16, 2020 Mary in Christian Tradition: Resources Cathedral Reader 2Part 3: Blessed Mother Month Bible Readings The Birth of Jesus Foretold 26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the…
April 15, 2020 Star Island Boy: Resources “Time and Tigers: Star Island Boy” An eleven-year-old orphan goes to a new foster home on an island off the coast of Maine, wondering…
