“It’s the low and battered places, edges bent and torn, hidden in the darkened woods— it’s there your spirit’s born.” Anne Buck, “Rain on a Flat Tin Roof” You find light in the darkness in the most unexpected places. For instance, a few weeks ago I wasn’t expecting that wisdom regarding...

(New York Times) — Parent alert: the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “Baby Einstein” videos that did not make children into geniuses. They may have been a great electronic baby sitter, but the unusual refunds appear to be a tacit admission that they did not increase...

I am a self-professing bookaholic. Call me crazy, but I LOVE the smell and feel of books. I love it the first time you open them and the binding crackles and you read that first introductory sentence. However, I also love old books and have collected several of them. I love them for the way they are...

Well into the throes of teaching writing and literature at Excelsior one day, a parent walked in between classes and asked me if I would be a guest speaker at the upcoming FACE (Forest Acres Christian Educators) meeting. “Uh … yeah … sure, I guess.” (Something like that came out of my...

I have been reading much about cathedrals lately. As a home schooling parent, I teach a segment of history each school year so that my children’s art, history, literature, music, writing, etc. all revolve around a specific time period. Right now, we are entrenched in the Middle Ages. Thus, the subject...