Excelsior! The Marriage Edition
I did not write much in 2025, but I finished out the year with a bang: Making fun of divorced people. Irresistible. […]
Edward Eager’s “Half Magic” and the Full Magic of Summering Well
“Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of […]
George MacDonald’s “At the Back of the North Wind” and the Paradox of Happiness
But to try to make others comfortable is the only way to get right comfortable ourselves, and that comes partly of not […]
“The Day Boy and The Night Girl” and Why Innocent Children Can Handle Real Life
He did not know what fear was, and that not because he did not know danger; for he had had a severe […]
George MacDonald’s “The Princess and the Goblin” and a Vision of Sheltering Motherhood
Are people of the British Isles exceptionally good at writing about mothers or do the British Isles have exceptionally good mothers to […]