Monday January 30 Ben did two pages in his Miquon and two pages in his letter book and then took a whiteboard around the house to copy words from boxes and books and things. Anthony did a page of Miquon and played some hands of Speed with me. We...
Ben is my super shy kid. Up until about a year ago he would not let me take his photo. Many a posed family photo has him lying on the floor at our feet. (See Bella’s first communion, for one.) He really only talks to members of the immediate...
To Any Reader by Robert Lewis Stevenson As from the house your mother sees You playing round the garden trees, So you may see, if you will look Through the windows of this book, Another child, far, far away, And in another garden, play. But do not...
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for my Uncle Paul. He died peacefully this morning right after the last of his grandkids arrived to say goodbye. His last days were spent with family surrounding him, all his siblings, his kids, and his...
My New Year’s resolution was to keep track of what I’m reading month by month. (I considered week by week, but I know I’d fall behind. A month at a time is so much less commitment. So here we are. One month down, eleven more to go...
I In the islet’s museum there is a twisted wine bottle, crusted with fool’s gold from the iron- cold depth below the redoubt. It has been listed variously by experts: one, that a galleon blown by a hurricane out of Cartagena, this far...
