No.792: My Mother Academia Plans for Winter/Spring 2024
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I recently watched a Youtube video called “Pursuing the Intellectual Life Outside of Academia (as a mom)” from Autumn at The Commonplace and woo! It spoke to me. If you’ve been here for any length of time, you know that I have eclectic taste in books. It was pretty difficult to whittle down my interests into four themes, but I persevered! For my “Spring Semester,” I picked American history (continuing on from last year), Catholic studies, Latin, and Economics.
2024 could be a pivotal year in countless ways and I want to expand my knowledge to better understand current events. The United States is a constitutional republic – why does that matter and do current events reflect that or deter away from it? The Catholic Church is riddled with confusion and infighting – what do we believe and how has the Church dealt with similar issues in the past? The US government is trillions of dollars in debt and inflation is a problem – what does that mean for our children in the future and what actions can we take today? And Latin, the building block of so many words and the traditional language of my beloved Church – I want to learn it!
A couple details: my goal is to try to commit 30 minutes a day to this endeavor. Hopefully, it will be in the early morning before my kids wake up, but I could also fit it in sometime after lunch. My TBR is miles long, but I’m trying to prioritize books that I already own before buying new ones. (That may explain the randomness of my booklist below.) I even made a weekly reading schedule to keep me on task:
My Weekly Reading Schedule
with a little religious reading each morning
SUN: off
MON: American history
TUES: Economics
WED: Latin
THUR: Catholic Studies
FRI: Misc. Non-fiction (memoirs, books that don’t fit, etc)
SAT: free choice
So excited to see where this takes me in the new year.