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So, We Come to the 4th of July - A Guest Post by Wyatt
We are now well into summer and the 4th of July was yesterday. The country turns 244 years old. We are half-way through a troubling...
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God in the Dock
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics by C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper (Eerdmans, 1970) I found this to be...
On the Transmission of Values through State Education
C. S. Lewis wrote the Preface to a book by B. G. Sandhurst entitled How Heathen is Britain? This essay has been republished as the...
Home At Last, After Five and a Half Years
In January of 2015 I began a walking tour. Not a literal tour, though the walking was real enough. I've been keeping track of the steps...
The Truth Is Better than What You Learned in English Class
I've never liked William Golding's book, The Lord of the Flies . Why high school English teachers think it helpful to assault students'...
Local Grief, Inside and Out
I know what it means to have a special, local grief that "outsiders" simply cannot understand. Most of my out-of-state friends had no...
How Can America Come Together Again? - A Guest Post by Wyatt
In recent days, it has seemed that the United States of America is scarcely united. As a matter of fact, we’ve had the...
The Lost Family
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are by Libby Copeland (Abrams Press, 2020) I been working seriously on...
Happy Flag Day!
During my lockdown-inspired nesting phase, I tacked the master bedroom closet first, and was thrilled to find two flags from my...
More of the Same, with Two New Ventures
Mostly we are continuing to work quite contentedly on our projects at home, supplemented by regular Skype sessions with grandchildren, a...
Jeni's Ice Cream
This year my children and my husband got together for an entirely different kind of Mother's Day treat: a selection of Jeni's Ice Cream...
A Long View of Current Times - A Guest Post by Wyatt
[ Editor's Note: This is homeschooling. The school year has ended and thus Wyatt has more time to devote to writing, setting...
Time for Some Fun
The world may be facing some very serious difficulties right now, but the world has always faced serious difficulties. One of the...
Lord Darcy
Murder and Magic, by Randall Garrett (Ace, 1979; written 1964-1973) Too Many Magicians, by Randall Garrett (Ace,...
The Cultural Differences Revealed by COVID-19 - A Guest...
The coronavirus has really brought out the culture differences throughout both the world and the country. It has sharply contrasted the...
It's Not "Their" Neighborhood
Up front disclaimer: I write with little knowledge of the details of recent events in America. What I say comes from more than half a...
This Week's Update - Further Afield, But Not Much
My Big Adventure of the week? Picking up two books I had ordered from the library. I called ahead because they have a 25% capacity...
56 Days
On April 1 I mailed two things to Switzerland: a birthday card for Janet, and a Priority Mail box of books that she had ordered and had...
Two More Weeks
Florida's gradual "reopening" has had little discernable effect on our lives. None of our outside activities have reopened as yet, and...
What Will Life Look Like After COVID-19? - A Guest Post...
The new coronavirus has brought many changes to our lives. I do not think that we’ll ever go back to the way things used to be, as...
Not Everyone Does This?
A friend sent me this interview , from the Indianapolis Star , about our current situation. The interviewees were two...
Florida's Beginning to Reopen, but We're Not
A friend posted this on Facebook. I have my suspicions that it was meant—by him, by the original author, or both—to...
Of Other Worlds
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories by C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper (Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1966) The...
Prosopagnosia and COVID-19
Now there's a title I'll bet no one else has used. All the disruption caused by the COVID-19 virus turns out to have a positive side...
The Discarded Image
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 1964)...