We have bird lovers at our house and so I’ve been collecting whole and living bird books for quite some time. There is something fascinating and remarkable about birds that continually captures our imagination. Here are some of our family’s favorite bird themed books. (Some may contain mentions of evolution. It’s difficult to avoid it […]
Review: Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
Anyone who has grown up as a sibling knows there is emotional processing that continually goes on as each sibling deals with the attentions, or lack of attentions, of others. Sibling rivalry and jealousy are natural things. I see it in my children as they fight for the front seat of the car. I see […]
Louis L’Amour and the Moral Imagination
Note: This article first appeared at rabbitroom.com, a fantastic resource for beauty of many kinds. My brother, Orrin Sackett, was big enough to fight bears with a switch. Me, I was the skinny one, tall as Orrin, but no meat to my bones except around the shoulders and arms. The Daybreakers, 1984 The other day […]
Castles in the Air
Last week as I visited France with my husband on an anniversary trip, I couldn’t help but think of my friends, the March sisters. When we arrived on the southern coast, I thought of Amy rebuking Laurie in Nice and her determination to see that she got her castle in the air by marrying the […]
Narnian Equality
Family tradition says my dad’s youngest sister once believed she could fly. To prove it, she climbed the stairs and leapt from the top. Predictably, she flew only a little way (mostly down), and rolled the rest of the way. Hilariously (according to her siblings), she did not stop at the bottom of the stairs, […]
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