Articles tagged Jen Greenholt

‘New World Echoes’ wins kids’ short story prize

Southern Pines, North Carolina—“New World Echoes,” a spring release from Classical Conversations MultiMedia, has won the Children’s Short Stories category in the Independent Press Awards competition.
The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the...

Brr…Bur…Burdened

by Jen
Friday, 05 January, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 05 January, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
As a child, I loved visiting my cousins in the Virginia countryside, especially in the winter months. Our visits included long rambles in the fields and woods surrounding their farmhouse. We waded through tall grasses up to our waists, clearing new paths like Lewis...

The Absolute Worst Thing Ever (and homeschool sticking points)

by Jen
Thursday, 03 August, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 03 August, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
I recently discovered a free app[1] that allows you to scan the bar codes of all the books you own to create a digital catalog of your library. For a bibliophile like me, this is a dream come true. Over a period of several weeks, I eked out five minutes here and five...

‘Oh, the places you will go’ with CC’s new cartography book

Good books can take you to places you’ve never been before, both real and imagined, and times past, present and future. Classics like “The Bronze Bow,” “Carry on, Mr. Bowditch,” and “Starship Troopers” can take you to 1st-century Galilee under the Romans, to sea in the...

Beautiful Memories and Inspiring Possibilities

by Jen
Saturday, 08 April, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Saturday, 08 April, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
When I was growing up, my favorite movie was Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. My favorite scene was the one in which the Beast introduces Belle to the enchanted castle’s library. The music swells, the doors swing wide, and Belle’s eyes widen as the camera spins to show...