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Teaching Together while Apart: The 2020 Virtual NCEA Convention

April 20, 2020
By Robyn Barberry
Filed Under: Blog, Unconditional

It’s hard not to be able to walk twenty-two steps across the hall to ask your friend for help. It’s hard not to know what the future of virtual education looks like.

I could write a sonnet about everything we did during the octave of Easter (7 Quick Takes)

April 16, 2020
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

My niece, Elise, challenged me to write this week’s 7 Quick Takes in sonnet form. April is National Poetry Month, after all. I think she believes—and rightly so—that I turn too often to limericks. And I do love a challenge.

Drawing strength from those before us

April 16, 2020
By Suzanna Molino Singleton
Filed Under: Blog, Snippets of Faith

Forget the hair, go back to your family roots.

Schoolwork at Home (A mother’s lament in rhyme)

April 15, 2020
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

“Mom I am.Oh, Mom I am. I love to be just Mom I am. What’s that? Here comes a quarantine? But what could all that home time mean?” “Here comes the schoolwork—there’s a lot. So make sure that each day you plot.” “I’m teaching math? And ELA? Can’t we just let the kids go play?” […]

Becoming an at-home hairstylist? Tips to avoid a hairy situation

April 13, 2020
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized

Here are a few tips if you find yourself starting your own home salon.

The beauty of Holy Saturday, our Lenten prayer basket, schoolwork, and a yummy mac and cheese recipe (7 Quick Takes)

April 11, 2020
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Recipes

Holy Saturday is such a powerful day. It’s a day of quiet. A day of transition. Today we stand between the sorrow of Good Friday and the joy of Easter. It is a peaceful, hopeful, expectant day.

As we await the Resurrection

April 10, 2020
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window

Somehow in this time of anxiety and indefinite quarantine, when so much seems uncertain, we seem to be primed for those moments of happy discovery—those moments when we see how much we are loved by God and by others.