In the stillness of sick days where my normally active children put themselves to nap, and I wonder where they are and find them sleeping, I have had some time to think about the upcoming school year and whether or not I’m meeting my “year of less” intentions I set out …
When Million was three, we embarked on something we called The Great One Thousand Book Quest. Everything sounds better as a quest, right? Basically, it was where we visited our library two or three times a week, checking out fifty or so titles each time until we read one thousand …
Old Benj had once said, “A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he’s alone on a hillside and draws it out, he’ll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.” ~Elizabeth Yates, Mountain Born I read the book Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates …
He saw clearly how plain and simple–how narrow, even–it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one’s existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his …
Sometimes it’s fun to share just a few snippets of unrelated things. Yes, I’m aware this makes for a “bad” blog post, according to all the rules that be for blogging. But I enjoy seeing just tiny fractions of others’ days (“day in the life of” posts, “what we’re using …
