I just thought I’d throw this recipe out there. I used to not really like tuna salad, at all. Then I started to realize how much I could play with it. It’s like a blank canvas. Now it’s one of my favorites and I wish I could serve...
Sunday February 14 Too cold to go to Mass, -8 degrees. Car wouldn’t start. Kids exchanged Valentines and made more and exchanged those. So sweet to see all the dear cards. And nary a piece of candy. They really don’t know it’s celebrated as a quasi...
Divisions of faith in the worship of Jad had led to burnings and torture and war almost from the beginning. The doctrine and liturgy of the sun god, emerging from the promiscuous gods and goddesses of Trakesia during the early years of the Empire of...
Sunday February 7 Bedtime story: Anthony and Lucy were fighting over whose book would go first. Everyone else was watching the Super Bowl. Finally I opened both books on my lap and read a sentence of one and then a sentence of the other. I thought...
“I will start with tears. For Evagrius– and for the whole Eastern spiritual tradition– they have an initial essential meaning: they are the acknowledgement that one needs to be saved, that one cannot go it alone. The little child...
Monday Feb 1 Early morning dentist appointment. (We listened to On the Banks of Plum Creek going thee and back.) Afterwards everyone was eager to play outside as the weather was amazingly warm and springlike. The kids were running around barefoot...
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;...
The Snowman One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun;...
Sunday January 24 We put crayons on the snow to see how the different colors absorbed heat. Bella and Sophie grasped the principle that was being illustrated at once. Dom showed the kids a documentary about the making of samurai swords. Bella was...
