Sometimes it’s best to take the easy way out. To the perfectionist daughter of the man whose photo is probably found beside the very definition of the word, those words feel like laziness as my fingers fly over the keyboard tonight. We do hard things here. We don’t take shortcuts. If we do things, we do them well. We don’t take the ...
The Writer Returns
Day one. Dipping my big toe back into the world of writing. Just about as timidly as I would dip it into the cold water of my grandmother’s pine tree-shaded pool on the first warm day of spring. And, just like that cold water, I know it’s best just to plunge in deep and fast and not look back. The shock to my system will pass, and the water will ...
Indescribable Atlas Adventures – And a LONG OVERDUE Review
About a year or so ago, I received a review copy of the Indescribable Activity Book for Kids by Louie Giglio. It arrived in all its new book glory looking exactly like this: Then it promptly disappeared. The next time I saw it, it looked like this: Ok. That's a bit of an exaggeration. This is what it looked when I found it in the back of my car after more than a few trips to ...
3 Ways to Start the New Year with Faith
Happy new year! It's January 8, and one of my kids has just gone back to school. The others are easing into the new year, and I'm sipping coffee at my leisure like my Christmas tree isn't still up. I blame my husband and his spectacular Christmas gift. When the coffee's this good, I must sit down and savor it. Our Classical Conversations Community doesn't resume until next week so I have ...