Most children (and parents) undergo a degree of decompression as they leave the hectic school year behind and enter the realm of those golden months of summer. Early mornings, busy schedules, and revolving deadlines are traded in for a more relaxed pace of life and significantly more free time. This is what we’ve all been…
Boys. Wow. They’re different. Having grown up in an estrogen-rich home with only one sister, I had a limited understanding of just how diverse the differences between boys and girls were. As a college student, I was stunned to see one of our male neighbors (we’ll call him “Hamilton”) drink directly from a carton of…
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” C.S. Lewis We want our children to become lovers of great books. We know we need a plan, but where do we start? I…
Let me tell you about my two-year-old. He loves life. He wakes early in the morning, eager for the adventures of the day. He is inquisitive about the way things work. He transforms long-forgotten remnants of this and that into tools, and he builds wood-block cities where the good guys decimate the bad guys on…
In the past year, I’ve had the great privilege of getting to know Randall Goodgame as we’ve dreamed, schemed, and planned for the future of Slugs & Bugs. Prior to working with Randy, I had been a big fan of his music. Yet after hours of conversations in which I asked a million questions about…
I fell in love with classical music at a young age. By accident. It happened as a byproduct of my environment. Songs from Kool and the Gang, The Police, and Michael Jackson played on the soundtrack of my childhood – right along with Brahms, Hayden, Tchaikovsky, and Mozart. In addition to pop tunes from the…
We’ve been wedding planning, my daughter and I. The flowers were the perfect shades of pink, the dessert carefully chosen (not too sweet, but with a hint of almond), the music just right, and then there were the words. Beautiful, powerful words that snuck up on me and made me cry through my smile. It…
We have great hopes for our children’s lives. We want them to love well, so we create opportunities for them to serve others. We want them to be wise, so we invest hours in purposeful, thoughtful conversation. We want them to desire truth and goodness, so we offer tantalizing tastes of the eternal banquet found…
Our family spent the better part of last year studying the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Together, we journeyed through his childhood, his family, his character, and his music. We discovered that his family was so well-known that it was common to be said of excellent musicians, “He’s quite a Bach.” Branding at…
I am very pleased, on behalf of the entire Story Warren criminal syndicate, to welcome our newest partner in crime, Julie Silander. I’m joking about the crime thing, of course, unless I mean stealing your hearts. Julie has been a friend and ally to SW from the beginning and is a personal friend to my…
