Catherine Price’s “The Power of Fun” and a Formula to Move Toward Eternity
Fun is a spritely thing. Hard to pin down, often out of reach. Children are apt to exclaim with satisfaction, “That was […]
Sarah Orne Jewett’s Mrs. Blackett, a Mother with Admirable Feminine Qualities
Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Country of the Pointed Firs” is a short, meditative, plotless novella. But it is exquisite in its imagery. […]
Strength from “Peaceful Slumbers” and Neglecting the Power of Rest
Strength doesn’t lie in numbersStrength doesn’t lie in wealthStrength lies in nights of peaceful slumbersWhen you wake upWake up!It’s healthy We tend, […]
Abundance of the Rare and Hard-to-Find
Waiting for birds can be a lengthy process requiring stealth. Small, feathered creatures of great mystery flit just out of sight, their […]
What Stops Mothers from Creating? Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Womanhood as an Integrated Whole
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh and an aviator in her own right, thought she should have written more. […]
Phyllis Schlafly Obliterated the Myth of “Fair Play” Four Decades Ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems. For going on five decades, the message to women has […]
Superhuman Wonder Babies…in Daycare
There’s a growing awareness among a widening range of people that when fewer people have babies and the people who have babies […]
When Words Are Not Enough
There is a manner in which the person with greater access to language has a richer experience of reality. The generic “flower” […]
Babies: To Know Them Is To Love Them
How often have you seen a lady pushing a stroller and assumed she is a mother or grandmother with a young child […]
On the Verbal Acuity of Two-year-olds
Listening to young children master spoken language is entertaining. The mystery of our words and patterns of speech come back to us […]