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Writing a Woman’s Life
I’ve had this slim book for years. It’s one my dissertation advisor gave me when he was paring down his library in preparation to move. I’ve put it off, partly because of the…
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Prospective Homeowners
We gave my older daughter a chickadee house for her birthday. We hung it on a maple outside the front window and have been enjoying watching the birds check it out. The first…
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Spring Woods
We took a walk to the vernal pool, and this time we saw it coming to life. The surface was alive with little plopping sounds and shivers. There were any number of these…
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Backing into Lent
One of my regular rhythms is to go back and forth on the subject of running. I run on the treadmill and like it partly because it’s prime reading time, and partly because…
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Jayber Crow
I read Jayber Crow when it first came out, and I didn’t like it as much as I expected to. Over the last week I’ve reread it, and I liked it better this…
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Praying with Jayber
I’ve been rereading Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow. I’m bearing down on the end, but I wanted to quote this passage here (though it’s long) because it seems important and is indisputably beautiful. It…
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Spring lifts her head
Robin’s song is crystal clear Cold as an icicle, Sharp as a spear. I have seen Spring lift her head, Snowdrops a-shivering, Winter dead. (“Robin’s Song,” E.L.M. King) Maybe I should have some…
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First robin, and other matters
Since grade school, robins have meant that spring is here. It seems awfully early, but… I guess spring is here! We went to check on the vernal pool yesterday, and though we didn’t…
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Back to basics: why we’re doing this
I’ve always had it in the back of my mind that I’m open to other educational options than homeschooling, should we find ourselves in a place and circumstances with better choices than the…
