In my homeschooling researches I’ve encountered several references to this great classic essay by Dorothy Sayers, famed mystery writer, creator of Lord Peter Whimsey, one of my favorite fictional heros. (The Well-Trained Mind and Designing You...
Peggy Noonan reflecting on the Oscars in the Wall Street Journal. Most Americans aren’t leading media, they’re leading lives. It would be nice to see a new respect in Hollywood for the lives they live. It would be nice to see them start...
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare I read an article by Asquith last fall and then a reader recommended this book. I love Shakespeare; but have been a bit sceptical about the claims that he was a closet Catholic...
Over at Dom’s blog several commenters are responding to my home school post. Why not at my blog? I’m not quite sure. I’ve posted my response to them there, some things I’ve meant to say here are included. I think I’ll...
The first book I picked up, although the last that I finished reading, was The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise, a mother-daughter team. Jessie home schooled Susan and in her turn Susan is...
I guess this would count as part of my pregnancy journal. One of the things I worried about when I decided to take the semester off was “what will I do all day?” So I got up around 8, washed my face, brushed my teeth, etc. I ate my rice...
One of my projects during this gestational semester when I’m not teaching is to read up on homeschooling. I know, I know, it’s a bit early to think about the kid’s academic career when she won’t even be born until May. But I...
In a way birth is as much a mystery as death. What life is like before birth is as unknowable as life after death, even though it is in the past we don’t remember life in the womb. Maybe this accounts for the popular conception that souls...
THe baby is doing well. Quite the wiggle worm. Yesterday she kicked the monitor as the doctor was trying to listen to her heartbeat. She also likes to kick daddy, I told him. I’ve been having baby dreams almost every night. Some good, some...
��Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness?� While it lasts, the religion of worshipping oneself is the best. I have an elderly acquaintance of about eighty, who has lived a life of unbroken selfishness and...
