Books & Such

Do You Hear What I Hear

A Happy Family

Rooted in the Dark Places

An October Surprise

The World in October

Thirty-Eight

The Contempt of the Sophisticated World

Beer, Divorce, & Supreme Court Politics

Shift

Threading the Labyrinth

Occupied by Noise

Monsters

Afoot and Lighthearted

Buying Flowers

Full Grown

C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet 

Again: In Defense of the Reread

A Peaceful House

Purpose

Adjust the Age

Soon Enough

Housekeeping

My Father's World

Our Complication

So Soon

Plans Geaux Awry

Out of Tune

Solid Wood

-Steve Jobs

Where You Are Going

On Peanuts & a Paradigm Shift

Paying for Peanuts

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 

Quiet Places

Quicksilver Moments

Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

Steady Anna

Life Begins Again

Life Itself

Tick Tock

All the Single Ladies

- Suzanne Collins 

Lifeboats

The Psychology of Human Touch

Tell Him, Tell Her, Tell Them

On Choosing Joy

In Defense of Silence and Solitude

Pearls

"After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, 

"I believe the nicest and sweetest days 

are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens 

but just those that bring simple little pleasures, 

following one another softly, 

like pearls slipping off a string."

-L.M. Montgomery 

The Gradual Turning

- George Eliot 

Reading for Content

Wild and Sweet

A mother is always the beginning. 

She is how things begin. 

-Amy Tan 

The Foundation

Softer and More Beautiful

An Inauspicious Beginning