Twelve poems (one per month) by John Updike, beautifully paired with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman trace the paths of two families—and their cats and dogs—through a New England year in this Caldecott Honor book. A while back in a...
via Matilda Questions: 1. What is your first name? 2. Favorite food? 3. Where did you go to high school? 4. Favorite color? 5. Celebrity crush? 6. Favorite drink? 7. Dream vacation? 8. Favorite dessert? 9. What do you want to be when you grow up? 10...
Dom made a discovery the other day. He said, “Oh, bother.” And Bella responded, “Oh, bother, said Pooh.” Nothing slips past her. I’m guessing it’s the all the Pooh stories we’ve been reading that led to her...
I’m not really a fan of the thriller/suspense/horror genre. I’ll make an exception for Dean Koontz. His books remind me of what I recall Dorothy Sayers saying of the detective novel: it is a genre which allows good to be truly attractive...
Yesterday my mother-in-law asked me a great question. Got me thinking. She’s reading Chesterton’s St. Francis and remarked on Francis’ habit of referring to his body as “Brother Ass”. And she said she was rather...
Elizabeth Foss writes “I was a better Mother before the Internet”. As always, Elizabeth is eloquent, thoughtful, thought-provoking. I love reading her reflections in part because she has been here where I am, has survived, and has gained...
Swallowdale is the second book in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons novels and lives up to the first novel’s excitement. The Swallows find themselves shipwrecked—while the Amazons are trapped at home by the visit of an...
After a late night out—dinner with good friends, Bella had a blast playing with their almost three year old—the girls and I slept in until 8:30 this morning. Bliss. After breakfast and morning prayers and getting everyone dressed, Sophia...
via The Bookworm They don’t come more succinct than this. All answers to be a single word. No more. 1. Where is your cell phone? table 2. Your significant other? working 3. Your hair? brown 4. Your mother? “nerd” 5. Your father...
via Philosopher mom, I discovered blogging the body: We are a group of 7 Catholic women who have committed to read Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, to respond to it, and to discuss the text, itself, and our responses to it with other...
