A good reflection on the importance of reading difficult poetry. (And it’s about my favorite poet too!) Think of the world as divided between things easily labelled and things just barely describable. Civilians work with the easily labelled...
Via The Common Room comes this disturbing story about a high school English teacher’s experiment with her students. I said, “It�s come to my attention that some of you heard there were some people in class who didn�t have to do the...
Bella helps me with my blogging.
I take a break from blogging to play ball with Bella.
Bella shares her teething ring with Daddy.
Bella shows grandma her books. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, one of our favorites.
But when mommy pulls out the camera, both books and grandma are forgotten.
A little late for Good Friday. But never too late. Fr. Stephanos posts a beautiful way of the cross in haiku form, a love song of the Bridegroom for His Bride. The second station: II. Acceptance Bride of sin and death, with this cross I do thee wed...
I woke up at five this morning from a very restless sleep and an anxiety dream about waking up more than an hour after the time we were supposed to be at the hospital. Tossed and turned until the alarm went off at 5:30. Dom went and woke up...
Didn’t get off to the greatest start. Her plane was was a bit early and we were running a bit late to pick her up at the airport so didn’t park and go in but pulled up to the curb. I jumped out to hug mom and help her into the van, Dom...
Are you still feasting? It’s still Easter. Liturgically, Easter lasts eight days and the Easter Season another forty days. I’ve been feeling bad, guilty almost. After the Lent I’ve had, I don’t feel like I deserve to feast...
I promise that I’ll get back to blogging about books and things other than the cuteness of Isabella. (Dom thinks I’m driving all my readers away by the constant barrage of pictures. He says I’m in danger of becoming one of those...
My suspicions were correct. Today I finally felt it as well as saw it, a sharp little point just peeking through her lower gums. I’ve been giving her some children’s Tylenol because she’s seemed a bit cranky. I tried to give her a...
