Books as Friends: Reading to Cultivate Desire for Immaterial Goods
“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak…” -John Donne, “To Sir Henry Wotton” Happening upon a book […]
Living the examined life
Living the examined life
“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak…” -John Donne, “To Sir Henry Wotton” Happening upon a book […]
Reading on the beach is a careful art, made all the more perilous when you have children to keep track of. Books […]
I recently found myself the only person in a room who had not spent multiple weeks of the past year touring New […]
Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping herons wakeThe drowsy water rats;There we’ve hid […]
The question of when to begin reading long stories with no or few pictures to children is a surprisingly nuanced one. In […]
Childrearing is often treated in our culture as a competitive sport. Parents become overinvolved coaches running drills. The relationship between parent and […]