Last fall I dropped by the church office to drop something off. After a few minutes of chatting with the staff, I picked up my keys to go home. One of our interns then asked me the question, “what … Read More ...
Fostering Imagination
The Visit
I wasn’t expecting it. The visceral response, the feeling as though I had stepped back in time, into a place that once belonged to me but no longer did. It was just supposed to be a visit – a short one to pass the time as I adjusted to new normals. I was not doing […]
Resources
Redemption and Hope in Heidi
When my son first discovered Johanna Spyri’s Heidi nonchalantly tucked into our stack of daily reading books, he revolted. The book jacket, with the story’s namesake cartwheeling across a meadow high in the Alps, violated his 9-year-old principles — specifically, his tightly held adage, “thou shalt not read books featuring protagonists in pigtails.” “No way,” […]
Warren & the World
The Warren & The World Vol 10, Issue 16
Justin Timberlake memes are about to make their annual cycle through the realms of social media, Mother’s Day is just around the corner, all the school end-of-year things are looming…it can only mean one thing (in the words of the immortal N’Sync): “It’s gonna be May.” (er, well, they said, “me”—that joke really doesn’t work […]
For Kids
Counting Snails
The pandemic was hard. In California, we were in a lockdown. We were essentially constrained to home and short trips to necessary stores. The pandemic was hard on schools; as a headmaster, I was in the role of leading a school, teaching classes, and coordinating my own children’s Zooms and related distance learning. The pandemic […]