I’m currently reading, in fact am almost finished with, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt and enjoying it very much. I don’t generally like reading biography and history; they are so often dry...
Dom and I haven’t been very good recently about posting new recipes to our cooking blog, In the Kitchen with Bella. But I had a little brainstorm the other day: what if we added a Twitter feed and I posted each day’s dinner menu...
I wandered into the living room this morning after breakfast to find Isabella up on the couch reading her favorite book. I especially love the way she’s tucked the quilt over her lap… just like I do when I sit down to read. At one point...
I sit down in the middle of the kitchen floor and Bella starts circling me. I turn my head to follow her and she begins to laugh. It’s contagious. I laugh too. And now we’re both laughing together, merrily feeding on each others’...
Karen Edmisten linked to this addictive vocabulary game with a humanitarian twist. Update: I just found this info on their website’s FAQ page. Interesting: FreeRice has a custom database containing thousands of words at varying degrees of...
“Do you ever wonder why God values obedience more than sacrifice? … Because obedience is someone else’s idea of what you should sacrifice.” —From David Manuel’s A Matter of Roses. I saw this last week, I...
Last week my sister-in-law asked me whether I’d heard anything about this book. She was wondering whether it would be appropriate for her girls who are currently obsessed with princesses. I’d seen the title but didn’t really know...
Bella’s current favorite book (we read it three times before nap and three times at bedtime tonight) is The Spring Rabbit, a book I think I picked up at a book sale somewhere. It’s funny because the premise of the story is a lonely...
In the comments on my Advent post below Cecilia’s mom asks whether I have any ideas about celebrating Advent with Isabella: I have to admit I’m not sure, beyond an Advent calendar ( ALL the doors of which she still wants to open every...
