This was today’s epistle. I should have realized that the title of O’Brien’s novel was a Biblical reference. But I didn’t. Anyway because I thought it was worth pondering: Ephesians 2,19-22. So then you are no longer...
The River is a coming of age story set in India, where Godden herself grew up. The heroine, Harriet, is the second daughter of an English family and a budding poet. Born in India, she’s never known any other world. Harriet encounters...
Dom is something of a worrier and I’m under strict orders never to leave the house without my cell phone. Bella knows now it’s part of my routine whenever we go anywhere. She’s all ready to go, standing by the door and I scurry off...
I’ve started reading the Winnie the Pooh stories to Bella and she seems to be enjoying them despite the length and lack of big shiny pictures. It started because she has a little board book of Eeyore’s Birthday that she’s latched...
Needing some inspiration to get you into the kitchen this summer? I know I do. Dom sent me a link to this article that makes me want to run to the grocery store and start cooking: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating I’m not doing too bad...
Another item to make you smile. Some things are funny in any language. This video of a little French girl eating candy is priceless.
Too much candy from Capucha on Vimeo.
This is what is making us smile today. (Except when I told Isabella we couldn’t play it again because it’s lunch time. Then there were tears.) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. Warning, parents, at the end of the video is the original title...
An interesting blog post at The Evangelical Outpost: Six Thoughts about Jesus. On of the thoughts: Some people assume that Jesus was a carpenter while others (on better evidence I believe) think he was a rabbi. Whether he worked with wood or with...
The Philosopher Mom muses about habit formation and discipline:
And I read it all so long ago in Aristotle: the virtuous man is the supremely happy man. To think the Nichomachean Ethics could be true in a toddler house!
