I know it’s been a while since I posted a weekly report. One week we were preparing for vacation. The next week we were on vacation. The following week we did a little school as we recovered from vacation and prepared for M-girl’s ninth birthday. Last week we had full school, and it was painful…
I’m reading Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers. I loved this assessment of police novels: “It beats me,” said Wimsey, “the way these policemen give way over a trifling accident. In the Sexton Blake book that my friend Ginger Joe has just lent me, the great detective, after being stunned with a piece of lead-piping…
More from Carolyn Weber’s new book, Holy is the Day. I loved this book. One of my favorite sentences. Ever.: “All of a sudden, without warning, an enormous pewter arch breaks the cerulean surface of the sea.” pg 107 ——————————————— No one had warned me just how truly power-full you became when filled with the…
Holy Is the Day: Living in the Gift of the Present by Carolyn Weber My rating: 5 of 5 stars Own. I pre-ordered Carolyn Weber’s new book, Holy is the Day in June (Yay!). It came while we were on vacation (Boo!). I opened it yesterday with some trepidation; how could it possibly stand up…
I pre-ordered Carolyn Weber‘s new book, Holy is the Day in June (Yay!). It came while we were on vacation (Boo!). I opened it yesterday with some trepidation; how could it possibly stand up to her previous book, my favorite read from last year: Surprised by Oxford. Is she going to be a one-hit wonder?…
I’m going to start trying to write a little something mid-week about the sermon(s) I hear on Sunday. I have a tendency to hear the sermon, remember it long enough to talk about it with the children on our drive, and then promptly leave it behind. I’m hoping that revisiting it a couple of days…