family Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/family/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:05:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 family Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/family/ 32 32 89931359 Reflections of an Honorable Man: Things My Parents Taught Me https://doingwhatmatters.com/reflections-of-an-honorable-man-things-my-parents-taught-me/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/reflections-of-an-honorable-man-things-my-parents-taught-me/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:05:32 +0000 https://doingwhatmatters.com/?p=4468 It’s almost the end of the year and I’m looking back at all that has happened. Like most years, 2023 brought a mixed bag of events — some happy and some sad. It seemed as though we attended more memorial...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/old-year-gratitude-new-year-hope/feed/ 1 4171 Keeping Thanks in Thanksgiving https://doingwhatmatters.com/keeping-thanks-in-thanksgiving/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/keeping-thanks-in-thanksgiving/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:53:03 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2801 Thanksgiving is an opportunity to spend time with loved ones and give thanks for the blessings of the year. Ideally, the holiday is something to anticipate with joy. Realistically, I know that the prospect of spending a day or more with a houseful of volatile opinion...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/keeping-thanks-in-thanksgiving/feed/ 1 2801 Aunt Edie’s Commonplace Book, 1917-1947 https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:37:49 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2236 “It is very helpful to read with a commonplace book or reading-diary, in which to put down any striking thought in your author, or your own impression of the work, or of any part of it; but not summaries of...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/aunt-edies-commonplace-book-1917-1947/feed/ 14 2236 Ideas Worth Sharing: Education, Entrepreneurship, and Soul Care — IWS #1 https://doingwhatmatters.com/ideas-worth-sharing-education-entrepreneurship-and-soul-care/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/ideas-worth-sharing-education-entrepreneurship-and-soul-care/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:45:12 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=642 Thursday seems a good day for an Ideas Worth Sharing (IWS) gathering post. Because I love patterns and systems, and like Hercule Poirot, order and method, these are roughly categorized by the areas of focus mentioned in Luke 10:27b – “You shall...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/ideas-worth-sharing-education-entrepreneurship-and-soul-care/feed/ 2 642 Why You (Probably) Need a Summer Break https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-you-probably-need-a-summer-break/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-you-probably-need-a-summer-break/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:45:20 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1432 If your student is behind in a school subject and you are thinking of homeschooling through the summer break, please stop a moment. I’d like to share a few thoughts on homeschoolers doing summer school. Schooling through the summer may...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-you-probably-need-a-summer-break/feed/ 3 1432 Gratefulness and Thanksgiving https://doingwhatmatters.com/gratefulness-and-thanksgiving/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/gratefulness-and-thanksgiving/#comments Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:00:46 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1279 Enjoy a poem (Gratefulnesse by George Herbert); a recipe (cranberry-orange relish), and a Thanksgiving sale, aka Homeschool Black Friday).

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/gratefulness-and-thanksgiving/feed/ 3 1279 How Then Shall We Live? https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-then-shall-live/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-then-shall-live/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:17:26 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=530 Some of the ideas in the last post’s video seem reminiscent of classical Christian ideas of how believers should live in the world. These Christian ideas are drawn from the whole of scripture and tradition, but the best known source...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-then-shall-live/feed/ 0 530 Three Questions to Ask Graduated Homeschool Moms https://doingwhatmatters.com/three-questions-to-ask-graduated-homeschool-moms/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/three-questions-to-ask-graduated-homeschool-moms/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:01:57 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1236 Want to know what homeschooling is really like? No matter what curriculum you use, homeschooling is a deeply personalized journey. What it looks like and how it feels will be based on each family’s unique blend of talents, interests, knowledge,...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/three-questions-to-ask-graduated-homeschool-moms/feed/ 1 1236 Ellen Potter- We’ll Say Good Night Here . . . https://doingwhatmatters.com/ellen-potter-well-say-good-night-here/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/ellen-potter-well-say-good-night-here/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:17:05 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1158 Mary Ellen Potter of Ashland, VA, formerly of Commerce, CA, left this life April 27, 2013. She was the widow of Edward Jackson "Jack" Potter, and leaves behind beloved family and friends.

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