Posted in Church Year, Gratitude, Raising kids, Spiritual Life on Apr 6th, 2012
It is Holy Week. It is Good Friday. That adjective, holy? That word, good? They’re not referring to me. I have been an unholy wretch this week. The house is a mess and I want it cleaned up. So I yell at my kids for the love of everything holy why can’t you put your [...]
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Posted in Raising kids, Reading on Feb 28th, 2012
February’s florilegium is particularly fragrant, friends. We finally got to back to the library on a weekly basis, so our book-list is more varied and interesting than it has been for many a month. In history we’re studying China in the Middle Ages, so we read lots of Chinese folk tales and some Chinese poetry. [...]
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 [...]
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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.