“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” C.S. Lewis There are moments when someone slaps us on the back and says “good job.” There are times that a smiling person sincerely says, “Thank you”. There are occasions when we are awarded or even honored, but there are many more occasions […]
Fighting Feelings of Insignificance
…Look you, this brave o’erhanging / firmament, this majestical roof, fretted / with golden fire…” Hamlet, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 323-325 Between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. each evening falls the mortal drowsy hour, at least for me. Upon finishing our bedtime routine with the six and eight-year-old, either my wife or I sit […]
A Sudden Joyous Turn
NOTE: This piece first appeared in The Rabbit Room, and then on Story Warren in 2013. It seems fitting to re-visit it now. So my nine-year-old son Aedan just finished reading Tolkien’s The Return of the King for the first time. He came downstairs after he finished and we talked about the ending, about the […]
The Gift of an Unscheduled Summer
EDITOR’S NOTE: Carolyn’s reflection on summertime from back in 2016 seems like a good place to return during this strange summer of 2020. I remember loving summer as a child, despite the intense Texas heat. It wasn’t that I didn’t love school. I did. But there was something magical about that long period of freedom […]
Four Ways Stories Help Us See the World in a Whole New Way
Stories are important. Those of us who are naturally imaginative may hold this conviction very strongly, even though it may be difficult to express in mere words. We just know that stories affect us deeply—they make us feel so much more alive. For those of us who are the more pragmatic, realist type, we may hold […]
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