Posted in Raising kids, Reading on Feb 14th, 2012
It’s a gorgeous blue-skied Saturday. The branch-tips of the trees along the sidewalk where Jack and I walk after our jaunt to the bakery are turning yellow and red and pink as they get ready to unfurl their leaves in the coming months. We hear the familiar rat-tat-tat of a woodpecker and examine all the power poles we [...]
Posted in Raising kids, Reading on Feb 7th, 2012
In his newest book, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, Alan Jacobs defines “one dominant, overarching, nearly definitive principle for reading: Read at Whim.” He goes on to quote Randall Jarrell, a poet and essayist and author of the delicious children’s book The Bat-Poet, which has language so ripe and rich, my kids and [...]
Posted in Gratitude, Raising kids on Feb 3rd, 2012
I have two bags of groceries, one in each hand, when I walk in the front door. I stand in the doorway and survey the wreckage. No, we haven’t been robbed. The house looked like this when I left. If cleanliness is next to godliness, I’m living in the second, or possibly third, circle of [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
