One of my mother’s best friends has family in Gulfport, MS. After three tormented days word has just come in that they are alive and safe–but they have lost everything. Many of their friends have died. There is nothing left of their home but utter devastation. How precious Life appears when saved from wreckage such […]
Augusta Evans’ St. Elmo belongs to that class of fiction which my sister and I lovingly refer to as ‘high Victorian’. If you are in the mood for heart-rending melodrama, virtuous pale-faced heroines with raven tresses, impossible love and evil characters convincingly reformed by the Gospel :), then I venture to suggest any one of […]
Here is a lecture given by Dr. Peter Kreeft of Boston College on C. S. Lewis’ beautiful and obscure Till We Have Faces. Having devoured the book with delight and awe, I still found myself trying to wrap my mind around some of the weightier concepts of this masterful re-telling of the Cupid and Psyche […]
I picked up a copy of this 1964 gem at my grandmother’s: Elegance: A Complete Guide for Every Woman Who Wants to Be Well and Properly Dressed on All Occasions by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux. I have every reason to suspect that my grandmother took very seriously the dictates of this classic guide to style, and […]
May 2, 2005
Philip and I had quite the Gene Stratton Porter experience today. We’ve been troubled about the recent tenants that have taken up residence in our prize black walnut, namely, a swarm of honeybees. We actually saw them swarm a few weeks ago, and were pretty frightened by the sheer […]