Photos of Another Visit to Brown University
A year and a half ago I visited Brown with our middle child who ended up not applying there. Today I took our youngest for her first formal college visit…
Ideas
Quoting Myself
“The more you are grateful for what is, the more there is to be grateful for.” Polly Castor
Thomas Merton Quote
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and
Our Son Made this Clock on a 3D Printer
Our son made this cool clock in his first engineering class at Swarthmore last semester. It was for a half credit pass/fail class and other kids chose to…
Recent Quotes from Friends on Facebook
Facebook can be a very inspiring place if you have the caliber of friends I do! For example, check out these quotes…
Bible Study for a Gifted 12 Year Old
I’m on a homeschooling chat list and a mother asked for ideas for her 12 year old who is gifted in math and science but bored in Bible study. Here’s what I…
Our Daughter Finished Her Senior Essay!
Our daughter is rightfully euphoric to have completed her senior essay and turned it in last night. This 42 page paper on Tocqueville’s Democracy in America…
Writing Prompt: Cory and the Frog
In my writing class this last fall we were first to write a character sketch from a photo in ten minutes. The photo I used was Cory. The second prompt was a…
Speech by Charlie Chaplin
This speech is from Charlie Chaplin’s movie The Great Dictator. What do you think of it? How do we do it? BTW, I loved the meat-grinder bit; that’s why we…
“You Live a Charmed Life”
A blog reader actually said that to me yesterday. To quote my Dad’s mother, “Ha!” It is only because of my doggedly positive perspective that it may seem…
Best of 2012
Wow. I’ve finished four years on this daily blog. That’s 1,424 entries! Here are the best posts of 2012…
Gifts of Nonfiction We Received
Two years ago for the first time, the only books our family received as Christmas gifts were non-fiction. Some of those books became favorites. This year…
Christmas Songs as Named by Lawyers
Below is a list of 25 Christmas songs renamed by lawyers. Your job is to decipher the names and return them to their original format.
Mayan Music
Not that I think the world will end tomorrow, but because my cousin Stephen has spent the last year working on this music evocative of the Mayans…
Christian Science Quotes I’ve been Pondering
“Ah, children, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of our race!” Mary Baker Eddy
Gratitude Requires Action
I wrote the piece below for a newspaper column spot for the Saturday following Thanksgiving, but by mistake it did not get printed. So I share it with you now…