“You give and take awayYou give and take awayMy heart will choose to say,“Lord, blessed be Your Name.”-Matt Redman
Read moreCatchy, huh? It’s the title (among other things) of the Winterim course I’m teaching this week and next. What’s Winterim? Well, at Trinity School, it’s the two-week period after Christmas break (and also, incidentally, after semester exams) and before the second semester begins. Rather than beginning with new material in these hazy, post-holiday days, we […]
Read moreI enjoy quite a few blogs on this here internet these days. I don’t get to read them everyday: most of the time my daily labors prevent such pleasures. But occasionally I get to Go Look. Some of the blogs I visit for the lovely pictures and for the idealized lives created on the page. […]
Read moreThe company had arrived, and I was scurrying to a kitchen (unfamiliar and dark) to prepare them a meal. I think it was meatloaf. I mixed and mixed, added this and that. The ingredients were many and varied: apples, maybe? Unpeeled. Onions? Chicken in meatloaf? The canned kind of chicken. I worked hard with a […]
Read moreWhan that Aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licourOf which vertu engendred is the flour…. My students are memorizing this. These and the other fourteen opening lines of the General Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. A few of them (small handful) actually like […]
Read moreSo no, I won’t tell you everything that’s been going on around here (see previous post), but I did recall something just now that I’ve been wanting to post here: Will and Everett have a blog. They started it this summer, not too terribly long after our brief but wonderful visit from These Wonderful People. […]
Read moreToday, for the first time in months, I could watch the football game on the screen of my neighbor’s television in the house behind ours, the house that, for all the months of summer, is screened from us by leaves. Today Emma Grace and I went for a bike-ride/walk. She created a basket for her […]
Read moreLife feels new to me today. We closed our play last night, you see (and this word, “closed” makes it seem a Much Bigger Deal than it was, as it only ran two nights. But we are, for now, a small school), and so the day feels less compressed, less hemmed-in than the last weeks […]
Read moreSo, I’d like to write about my weekend. I have been planning to do so, in fact, and have several posts percolating (yet again). But Sunday night has arrived, and with it the pressures of the coming week. My students and I are putting our play, Don Quixote, into production this coming weekend, and, with […]
Read moreI’ve been reflecting just a wee bit lately on Christmas letters. Yes, it’s coming on that time again, and once again– as I do every year– I have hopes of sending mine out early. We’ll see about that. Last year’s Christmas letter was a reflection on what is “ideal.” Our culture creates it for us […]
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