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Links and inspiration
Recently I’ve come across a few links I wanted to share. The first is a Yale University English class lecture on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, a book I recently read and reviewed. There are…
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
I finished this book last night, turned off the light, and lay numbly in bed for a few minutes. “What a depressing book,” I muttered. “Why did you read it then?” asked my…
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Homeschool days
I thought I should record some of the tweaks I’ve made in materials this year, as well as a brief description of how a typical school day goes. I see these on other…
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Coraline
It’s with some degree of guilty pleasure that I liked this book. It’s a children’s book, much creepier than my usual fare, and it’s been around since 2002. It’s even been made into…
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Powerpoint worship
When we visited Kentucky last week, we attended the Free Methodist church I belonged to when I lived there. The worship consisted of a mixture of hymns and choruses. The hymns were in…
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Apple-Picking
Yesterday was another overcast, austere day here. We drove to a mountaintop orchard and picked apples in chilly, upper-40’s temperatures. The landscape has begun to look merely rusty to me — as it…
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Housekeeping
In Moby Dick, there’s a long passage of meditation on the whiteness of the whale. Melville launches into a highly symbolic and metaphysical discussion of the concept of whiteness, and we’re left with…
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Autumn walk
On Tuesday, our first day back home after vacation, I dug in and accomplished things: laundry, groceries, bread baking, school, pet retrieval of rabbit, hamsters and dog from their various vacation homes, horseback…
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My Old Kentucky Home
We took a long-delayed summer vacation last week to Kentucky. I used to live in the Bluegrass region, and we visited friends and took in the general hospitality and beauty of the area.…
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The Four Loves
The Four Loves is typical C.S Lewis: wise, witty, discerning, and self-effacing. I’ve heard about it for years, but something about the idea of an exposition of love seemed unappealing. I felt it…
