A Word from Charlie Munger on Luck
This year, as with every rotation around the sun, the world lost many lights. Jimmy Buffett and the other Buffett’s long-time business […]
Patricia Polacco’s “The Butterfly”: A Story of Hope in Cruel Times
Patricia Polacco’s picture book “The Butterfly” strikes a rare balance: grim and gritty and yet hopeful. The story is based on real-life […]
A Resource for Curating Books that are True, Good, and Beautiful
As “classical education” becomes more of a buzzword, there is yet more discussion of “the good, the true, and the beautiful.” As […]
Ken Guidroz’s “Letters for my Son in Prison”: A Father’s Love Shared Through Stories
We tend to think of reading to children in utilitarian terms: better SAT scores and verbal skills, improved abstract thinking and reading […]
When Raising Kids, Sometimes Less Really is More
Writing at the Federalist recently, I offered some thoughts on a study from earlier this year on the rise of mental disorders […]
Layaway vs. Afterpay: Thinking about How to Effectively Incentivize Ourselves
When was the last time you heard about someone putting something on layaway? It used to be that stores advertised the option […]
Elizabeth Goudge’s “Linnets and Valerians”: Children at Their Most Magical
“Free to go where you like and do what you like.” Such a thing had never been said to them before. If […]
The Homeschool Mother’s Essential Summer Reading: Sarah Mackenzie’s “Teaching from Rest”
“Restful learning is not throwing all care to the wind, eschewing worthy goals such as mastery of math facts, the ability to […]
Noel Streatfeild’s “Ballet Shoes”: The Rhythms and Routines of Life and the People Who Make them Happen
Summer is the time in between, a time for reimagining the patterns of ordinary life. Once September is underway with a crush […]
The Pattern of a Beautiful Summer in Wallace Stegner’s “Crossing to Safety”
Wallace Stegner, the legendary author of the American West, also spent time teaching in New England. A keen observer, he recreates the […]