Our family has long embraced keeping Sunday as a separate and holy day, so when we saw this article titled, “France set to relax Sunday shopping ban,” it quickly captured our attention.

Wouldn’t it be amazing to live in a country where Sunday is regarded as a day set apart from our weekly labors?

Regrettably it appears that for much of France, this blessing is soon to be removed… full article here

If your homeschooled children have not yet watched a documentary on Apollo 11, today would be a very appropriate day to do so!

Or, if you have watched a full documentary but it has been some time, here are some short video clips to recap the highlights of Apollo 11.

Maybe I am alone, but it still makes my heart leap to watch these clips and see the huge responsibility borne by the leaders on earth, excitement of those on board, anticipation of the audience on earth, and the thrill of a safe landing, mission, takeoff, and splash down.

I thought these clips provided a great summary this anniversary.

Lift off, Landing, and Return

Audio Slide Show – Lots of interesting photos and an informative narrative

Did you know that a “disaster speech” was prepared for President Nixon to use in case of a fiasco, which would leave the astronauts trapped on the moon?

Do you view speech-writing skills as valuable only for those few who habitually make speeches? View it thus no longer.

Great speech-writing skills can lead to great persuasive conversation skills; and what homeschooling mom does not need these when conversing with her homeschooled children?

She believes passionately in a cause, concept, or conclusion and yet as she mounts her noble steed of knowledge and gives reign to a rush of insight, she perceives not a people refreshed and empowered with a new enlightened understanding but a bored audience, skeptical, unimpressed and rapidly retreating.

Does this sound familiar to you? Then you also may benefit from these helpful tips included in this handy article.

Did I incorporate all of their recommended techniques? Read this article to find out!

If you are mature enough to remember 1969, is this how you remember envisioning the Internet?

For those of you who (like me) are a bit young for 1969 this is an insightfully amusing clip…

Newly named head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) by President Barack Obama, genome project leader Dr Francis S Collins writes this special article for CNN on why as a scientist he believes in God. While some of the information can be disheartening, you can now know directly from Dr. Collins a little bit more about what he believes and why.