Last Friday I met with my school’s headmaster to talk curriculum. In all honesty, I had done no work on curriculum since the end of the school year, because the day after school ended, I was on a plane to Kenya. I didn’t pack any textbooks. It took Some Doing to bring my mind back […]
Read moreHere is a copy of an e-mail I received the other day: “v is for victory the test said NO! that’s right, whether U listen 2Duke or They Might Be Giants, the answer was the sameNO,NO,NO a thousand times no. clean bill of health,thanks for your prayers, your patience and yourrestraint :> “ This came […]
Read moreEverett has been a strong reader for about a year now. He reads fluently, and with expression. And he can read Long Books: this past school year, he and I read the entire Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone together. The problem is that he doesn’t like to do it. This baffles me. How could […]
Read more“Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft […]
Read moreEverett at play with children at Beacon of Hope.
Read moreHeld by Natalie Grant Two months is too little. They let him go. They had no sudden healing. To think that providence would Take a child from his mother while she prays Is appalling. Who told us we’d be rescued? What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares? We’re asking why this […]
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I’d like to introduce you to another blog, one introduced to me by my dear friend Lynne. It is called Photo Dilettante, and I really love it. MLE is an amateur photographer who has vowed to post a new photo to her blog every day. She’s doing really well so far (better than most of […]
Read moreI received a letter from Duke University in the mail the other day. “Congratulations,” it said, and went on to inform me that, yet again, I have been granted a scholarship for my upcoming year of study. This is Great News, as tuition at that fine institution is No Small Amount of Money. The good […]
Read moreAt long last, I have gone back to some old posts to add pictures to the text. If you are interested, please look at the posts entitled Marafiki and Musmark for pictures that correspond to the story. And yes, if you can’t tell already from their titles, both posts are about our time in Kenya. […]
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