Category: Personal

  • Excerpts from the journal of Sarah Prince Gill

    I recently reviewed The Silent and Soft Communion. As I wrote in my own journal on January 1, 2009, I wondered what Sarah Prince Gill wrote in her journal at the start of a new year. Two entries for January 1 are featured in The Silent and Soft Communion for the years 1756 and 1758.…

  • Happy New Year/I Have A Blog

    I’ve been sitting her for five minutes thinking of a pithy beginning for this post. I want to be interesting and charming and I’d like for you to want to become a subscriber by the time you get to the end. But five minutes is too long to think about how to begin when I…

  • Some Notes

    The Tale of DespereauxOur family is so excited that The Tale of Despereaux opens tomorrow! It’s one of our favorite books. Hannah received it as a gift last Christmas. We all wanted to read it, so I used it as a family read-aloud earlier this year. Hannah is a voracious reader. She’s like me in…

  • I’ll Be Back

    I fully intended to start blogging regularly again on December 1. Several times this week I sat my fanny at the computer to write something thrilling about the last month, but…honestly? I don’t have much to tell and it certainly isn’t thrilling. I get asked questions about what our lives are like, what we’re up…

  • Ideologically, I couldn’t be more opposed to an Obama/Biden administration. Yet… As an American, I couldn’t be more proud. America is a great country. This is an amazing moment in our history and I’m going to enjoy it and bless God for it. Ads