“It’s good to be me here with you.” You have likely heard this saying over the years as we have gathered together in classrooms and campus meetings and felt the loving presence of a speaker who is greeting us in such a kind way. Recently, as I was pondering this statement it seemed clear there […]

It started with oatmeal and a way to remember that it was Tuesday. A few weeks into home education of Spring 2020, we were experiencing the Groundhog Day strangeness of each day feeling like the one before. Laundry day was no longer enough to keep the days from morphing into each other. Weekends together definitely […]

Since 1910, Zoe is the 287th most popular girl’s name,1 but that’s not why I so christened our new 92-year-old house (two dots over the “e” to dress it up). I’ve never named a house before, though I’ve wanted to; it is common practice to name domiciles in Ambleside and elsewhere in the more charming […]