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, […]
Poems to Learn by Heart
I’ve been thinking lately about poetry, about what sticks in our minds when we hear a poem. The sound of the words, the rhythm of the meter. I was watching TV the other day and heard some lines that I knew immediately were Shakespeare, even though I was unfamiliar with them. They just sounded like […]
Summer Reading Ideas for Your Horse Lover
Horses have shaped the landscape of our history for centuries. For those of us who are passionate about horses there is a beauty and nobility about them that not only captures our imagination but also instills a sense of wonder and inspires us to dream bigger dreams. Horses have helped us battle against enemies, farm our […]
Review: We Are The Gardeners
“My ‘a’ looks terrible,” my six-year-old mumbled during our handwriting lesson. Failure. It’s something none of us enjoys. But it’s something we all experience often, especially when we are learning a new skill. How do our children respond to failure? In his talk “Critic to Curator,” author S. D. Smith explains the difference between posture […]
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