Practically Speaking: A Very Good Place to Start
There is much to be said for the benefits of practical action. The demons of perfectionism are exorcised by rolling up one’s […]
Principle for life: Let other people solve their own problems
Temple Grandin is the great apologist for “bottom-up thinking,” the practice of allowing the particulars on the ground to determine your thinking […]
Truth in fiction
Faced with our limitations and fallibility, there’s a temptation to reduce the truth to a technicality. So much of our culture is […]
Bigger government is not the answer for frozen Texans and dead Californians
This week, nighttime in southeast Texas is a comfortable 64 degrees. Last week, in a once-in-a-century event, the temperature dipped down to […]
Books Worth Reading: A collection of poetry, Who Has Seen the Wind?
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has […]
The chains of habit
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken.” -Warren Buffett The punchy […]
Education for growth
The impulse of much of our culture when thinking about education is strangely reductive. We take a dismal and narrow view of […]
Brambly Hedge: a Wonderful Books Series by Jill Barklem
Jill Barklem’s marvelous series of Brambly Hedge books, the first of which was published in 1980, are a feast of whimsical details. […]
Who was Sigrid Undset?
English-speakers are most likely to find author Sigrid Undset through her novel Kristin Lavransdatter. Part soap opera, part rich spiritual tome and […]
Cheerfulness
A cheerful heart is a good medicine but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. -Proverbs 17:22 A person perennially of […]