“The medi�val church could not have remained both sane and impeccable – it chose to remain sane, knowing impeccability to be impossible in a fallen world.” At The Lion and the Cardinal a fascinating post about art and architecture...
This one grabbed me in the gut. I want to own this book—the old one, not the new. From Touchstone Magazine an interesting article by Anthony Esolen comparing two editions of an encyclopedia, The Book of Knowledge, first published circa 1926...
I found this very interesting blog today. A Jewish man named David Plotz is reading the Bible for the first time as an adult and blogging the experience. I decided I would, for the first time as an adult, read the Bible. And I would blog about it as...
The more I read about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy, the more I like it. I’m especially intrigued by the practice of “narration”, having the child tell back what they have absorbed of a passage that has been read to them; but...
From The Common Room an entry on large families and siblings: Another question we ask each other (and others ask us) is ‘how do you make sure your children get some one on one time?’ Several years ago I was astonished when a mother of...
We just returned from a family outing, Bella’s first experience of a movie in the theater. With some carefully planning and a strategic feeding just before we left we were able to watch the entire film, X-Men III with no interruptions, no...
I just read a beautiful meditation on the joys of motherhood and children who are not physically perfect by Melissa Wiley of The Bonny Glen at catholic exchange and my eyes are full of tears. The baby inside me kicked and kicked; I felt her foot...
Danielle Bean has a great discussion going on her blog today about why women feel defensive: Why is that some of us get so darned defensive upon merely hearing about others who make choices for their families that are different from our own...
I finished reading A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola last weekend but have not yet had the chance to write about it. At first I didn’t think I was going to like this book. It...
Here we go again. Insomnia. Tossing and turning at 1 in the morning. What? The time stamp says 4? Well, yeah; but I’ve been up since 1ish. My baby girl? Sound asleep. She fell asleep soon after Dom brought her in at 1, sucking sweetly on my...
