I love public libraries. We visit our favorite branch weekly, if not more often. We bring home stacks and stacks of books, and they are in…
Reunion
I spent Saturday afternoon in the basement of a tiny country church in eastern Kentucky, surrounded by people with noses and pinky toes just like…
Free range learning
My mom used to call us ‘free range kids,’ like free range chickens… We roamed the countryside. —William Moseley I think we skipped from March…
Waking Up
Green Acres is the place to be. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide Keep Manhattan, just give…
The Missing in Missions
A few minutes of WiFi recently was enough. It meant that for the first time in more than a week, I’d set my eyes on…
May Day
Jude turned three yesterday. His birthday is May Day, a holiday without much traction here in the States, but huge elsewhere in the world for…
The stick of doom
Today I met my current arch nemesis. Laugh all you want, because it was a little blue Honda. I’m a good enough driver at this…
Straddle Parenting in real time
Experienced moms of many told me there would be a tipping point, a moment somewhere along the way where the tide would turn and I…
The Well-Connected College Student
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Now and Then: On Looking Back
There comes a time in every man’s life when he looks out at the world and says to himself: “What the heck happened?” It’s been…