Lovely thought of the day from Steven Riddle at the Flos Carmeli blog: . . . What came from this chain of thought is that I need to radically alter my view of God’s involvement in the life of the world. He is intimately entangled in every...
The letter G! Specifically the hard G. I don’t know why but for some reason that sound had Bella in stitches this afternoon and this evening. Absolutely the funniest thing she’d ever heard. I’ve never seen her laugh so much. It...
Dom recently took this charming picture of Isabella with his camera phone. That sound you hear is a mother’s heart breaking. Update: Ok, people, just to be clear, that’s a figure of speech! She’s so beautiful, it breaks my heart...
The Isabella Marie record for pulling off her hat right after mom puts it on…. 5 seconds!
I’ve been thinking more about Waugh and my ambivalent reaction to books other than Brideshead Revisited. And I’m realizing that it isn’t much different than my reaction to other authors I’ve discovered when the first thing I...
“There is no guarantee that a child will choose to believe or want to live a Christian life later on. And we must not brainwash them in any way. It will be their choice. They need to know why and how the Christian faith is believed to be...
Recorded November 1, 2006.
Steven Riddle at Flos Carmeli has been posting recently about Daily Lit, a service that sends you a little bit of a book every day by email (or you can have it send only M-F or only M,W, F). They have a pretty good selection, though the library is...
Last night for whatever reason Bella was really having problems sleeping. She was obviously very tired and would drift off in our arms but immediately wake up and fuss every time we put her down. Dom and I were already tired and frustrated and...
I finished reading The Sword of Honour Trilogy a few weeks ago and couldn’t write a review because I was having a hard time deciding what I thought about the book. Now, I’ve had time to think and I still am unsure. But then again I seem...
