EDITOR’S NOTE: David first shared this article with us in 2012. My own kids are older now, but I still find it challenging, hopeful, and thought-provoking. I hope you will […]
On Work and Play and Human Flourishing
I used to hate mowing the lawn. Truly, I hated it. My allergies would spring up and slam into my face and laugh at me like some middle school bully […]
The Joy of Being Awake
In their book, Bless This House: Prayers For Families And Children, Gregory and Suzanne Wolfe write about how “mornings seem to be the special province of young children”, about how it’s […]
5 Ways to Develop Healthy Imagination In Your Kids
In his recent book, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Dr. Anthony Esolen, a noted literature professor and translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy, wrote this: If we […]
On Food and Sacrament and Making Memories
We had one of those quintessentially North Carolinian evenings today, the kind where the air hangs low between the oaks and the magnolias, warm enough to be felt but cool […]