Continuing to read Bed and Board: Plain Talk about Marriage by Robert Farrar Capon Here’s a section from the chapter titled “Board.” It struck me especially this week as we sat down to our Thanksgiving dinner. The table enters the...
I’ve been reading Bed and Board: Plain Talk about Marriage by Robert Farrar Capon. The book was published in 1965 but wears quite well in essentials. The author is an Episcopalian priest and father of six, he unites a theological insight with...
Monday Rainy, sleepy day. At least I was sleepy. And feeling a bit under the weather. The kids were deeply entrenched in a dress up game— pirates and queens— when I got up and had a hard time stopping for both breakfast and school work. They...
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Recently I spent some time trying to figure out how to make a new dress for Sophie’s rag doll, whose dress has a rip I can’t repair. I’m usually a bit more clever at planning things out, but I was pretty tired. So at first I tried...
Monday A ragged start to the morning. Everyone was up at a reasonable time, but Sophie was grumpy and Bella was distracted. I did teach them a hymn: Rise Up O Men of God. At least I think they learned a bit of it. I was trying to figure out why I...
Last week at the Museum of Fine Arts we saw a little ceramic statue of Judith holding the head of Holofernes. One of the kids asked me about it and while I was able to identify her as Judith, but when I was pressed for her story, I realized I didn’t...
At least I think it’s week 11. Sorry for being so late today. We had a last-minute chance to go meet up with an out of town friend who was in Boston for a book signing. So we took it. Anyway, tell me all about what you’re learning. And...
Mind you, this is a blog post with Goya’s name in the title but no pictures of his work because there was no photography in those galleries. Dom had a work deadline on Tuesday and so he took his holiday on Thursday. It worked out quite nicely...
I’ve just finished re-reading Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (you may already know he’s one of my favorite authors ever.) Re-reading this novel after reading the sequel, River of Stars, was a funny sort of slipping backward in time...
