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Poetry potpourri
Anyone else hear this story on NPR this morning? It discusses the state of poets and poetry in a suffering economy, and includes a link to its Planet Money blog, where readers have…
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Rededicated homeschooling
We’re going to continue homeschooling if at all possible. I even have my curriculum wish list made for next year. Every year, I face questions. At the start of this year I rededicated…
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I Lock My Door Upon Myself
This novella is my first Joyce Carol Oates tale. Only 98 pages long, it was completable in an afternoon, and it leaves an afterglow in my mind. It’s lyrical, melancholy, compulsively readable, and…
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Girl Meets God
Girl Meets God is Lauren Winner’s spiritual memoir, subtitled On the Path to a Spiritual Life. I found myself contrasting it often to Blue Like Jazz, in which Donald Miller traces a similarly…
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Tired of the fence
My husband is a perpetually hopeful person. He sees an ideal, commits himself to it, and neither hell nor high water can shake him from it. I tend to be more of an…
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Instructional Gladiators
Today I reflected on my hopes for this year, and realized I have two different teachers inside. They seem always to be wrestling, with one on top some days, the other on top…
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Beauty
I’m getting older. I notice it in the aches of the body and the occasional weariness of the mind. I observe it in the mirror as my brown hair begins to fade, and…
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Davita’s Harp
Stories by Chaim Potok just… get to me. My Name Is Asher Lev. The Gift of Asher Lev. The Chosen. The Book of Lights. Now this one. Davita’s Harp is about a young…
