How little I knew about life before I had children! For example, I didn’t know that babies can develop an oral yeast infection called thrush. (Until that point, a thrush was something that twittered outside your window when you were trying to snooze on Saturday mornings. A Saturday snooze—ah, the memories.) I didn’t know you…
[I]magination has the property of magical expansion; the more it holds the more it will hold. ~ Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 1925 It’s easy to make the mistake of thinking that imagination is like inspiration—that it just kind of happens. Not true. Imagination is just like a muscle—it will become weaker or stronger depending…
Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney Dude, you should totally read this: Tim Challies takes on work/life balance: When we look at the issue of long working hours,…
My son, Coulter, is nine months old which means that he is discovering all kinds of miraculous little things. Just this week he has discovered that when he slams the cabinet doors against their frames they make a loud noise and that when he pulls mommy’s hair she makes a similarly loud noise. He has…
We are big Dan Zanes fans in our home. We especially love his Sea Music, but the record this song comes from, Night Time, is also pretty great. It even features a Zulu song, which warms my part-African heart. Enjoy!
Two-year-old Silas stood awaiting his sentence. Someone had committed a crime against household harmony, and he had no alibi. In fact, the Judge had seen Silas do it. Whoever said “Justice is blind” was crazy, he thought. I think Justice has eyes in the back of her head. And she did. Things were not looking…
It is the business of a sinful world to turn our eyes away from Jesus – to the more pressing, familiar-seeming things around us: “a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past” (Lewis, The Screwtape Letters). Our work, entertainment, and hobbies act as anesthetics. And like anesthetics, they block pain…
Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitude of things. – P.B. Shelley, A Defense of Poetry Dude, you should totally read this: Sarah Bessey recounts 10 books that have helped her as a…
My husband can tell that my annual bout of parenting fatigue has arrived when I lock myself in our bedroom with the laptop and a half-pint of Starbucks Java Chip ice cream. I’ll sit on the bed crying into a soft old t-shirt from college, rattle around YouTube, and occasionally whimper, “I can’t do this…
The independence being celebrated today is, of course, independence from the likes of me (Brits). Excuse me but first of all, what is a Brit doing posting on Independence Day? I know. It’s terribly cheeky but I didn’t do it I was pushed Sam made me do it. Now that we’ve got that out of…
Some months ago, my wife and I were reading Eleanor Estes’ charming book Rufus M. We were amazed at one story where Rufus (the youngest of the Moffats and the title character) found some money frozen in the ice. While the rest of his family were busy trying to manage a frozen pipe under the…
Every Friday we recap a little from the Warren and venture out into the world for more stories you might have missed. “I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.” – Frank Capra, Film Director Dude, you should totally read this: Robert Louis Stevenson…
