“Then Aslan stopped, and the children looked into the stream. And there, on the golden gravel of the bed of the stream, lay King Caspian, dead, with the water flowing over him like liquid glass. His long white beard swayed in it like waterweed. And all three stood and wept. Even the lion wept: great […]
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I have always had an Uncle Lynn. I am guessing that you, O Reader, cannot say the same; most people do not have an Uncle Lynn. That’s a rare commodity.He hated his name. Once I asked my mother why didn’t he just go by his middle name, but she assured me he felt his middle […]
Read moreMy heart is steadfast, O God;I will sing and make music with all my soul. I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;I will sing of you among the peoples.For great is your love, higher than the heavens;your faithfulness reaches to the skies. -Psalm 108: 1, 3-4
Read more1. William, 18 months, walked across the room, tripped on his own feet, and landed on a plastic cup. The cup did not move; the cut, which neatly bisected his left eyebrow, required ten stitches. 2. William, 33 months, stood on the toilet and leaned over the sink. His hands slipped; his chin hit the […]
Read moreHave you ever had one of those days when, all day, you didn’t really know what day of the week it was? You know, where you thought that it was Wednesday but in fact it was only Monday? Well, all day I have been feeling as if today is Friday. It isn’t. It’s Thursday. “Why?” […]
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Emma Grace came into the bathroom the other morning, fresh out of bed, with her index finger hanging on her lower teeth. Surprised by this uncommon pose, I had to ask: “What is it, Emma Grace?” Her reply: “I have a loose tooth.” We’ve been over this ground before. It’s hard to be the youngest, […]
Read moreWe’ve been studying, among other things, the octopus in our homeschool. Now here is a fascinating creature. A mollusk (who knew?), the octopus is relative to clam, oyster and mussel. But she makes use of her spineless, shell-free state: that soft body can insert itself into minute cracks and dark slips of spaces where it […]
Read moreWhat’s good is macaroni and cheese for lunch on a cool, rainy day. Macaroni and cheese from a box, made with Real Butter. And a hot dog. A real Oscar Mayer weiner that makes no promises whatsoever to save me from anything like fat, cholesterol, or calories. There are times when one needs salvation from […]
Read moreShe looks the way I expect her to look, and so I wonder if I have seen her photo already somewhere, but I don’t remember it. At the other end of middle age, perhaps, a woman of average height and build, dark hair gone mostly grey and hanging thickly past her shoulders.We hear her first […]
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We moved all of the furniture out of the living room to clean the carpet. It was convenient, then, to have a “campout” in the living room. So we did.
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