My mind is always in the past.  Right now I'm reading three different books on the ancient Celts.   I yearn to share this with the kids, SO much, that I've been writing letters to them wherein I regurgitate in kid-friendly vocabulary every thing I am learning. 

I love American history, too, but it can't be appreciated without a sturdy understanding of medieval history.  How can you understand medieval history without Roman history?   How can you understand Rome unless you have a grasp of the Celts, the Greeks, the Norse and the Hebrews?  

I am so impatient with American history that I've been dreaming about ancient history all day long -- and now at night, too! 

Last night I dreamt that we were studying the Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of Greece, and we all went to the Parthenon in Nashville to wrap it up.