In the third book of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there’s a scene that has stuck with me as a good lesson for many times and circumstances, but especially… Read more

Walking composition “Angry people are not always wise.” ― Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice I was copy editing a 5th-grade teacher’s manual last week in which one of the unit goals was to have students… Read more

Walking composition “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” —Iris Murdoch What happens to a word when people start talking about it as having lost all meaning? When it… Read more

Walking composition “As we’ve come to understand, there is no such thing as the unknown. Only the temporarily hidden.” —James Tiberius Kirk, Star Trek: Beyond I keep smearing chokecherry residue on my laptop. —- We… Read more

Walking composition “While many will agree that colonialism is wrong, they cannot imagine a future without it.” —Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future Last weekend I took a kiddo to Yellowstone National Park with… Read more

Essay Several people have sent me notices of the Wall Street Journal Facebook investigation and, although I haven’t read it yet, I do appreciate it. (I’m not putting in a link because it’s paywalled, but… Read more

Walking composition “He thinks he is presenting things as they are, but what he really presents is his own essentially vulgar personality.” —Willa Cather, 1919, in a letter to her brother My younger sister and… Read more

Walking composition “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.” — Georgia O’Keefe (h/t to Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept, for that one)… Read more

Essay A couple weekends ago my family went to a cabin at the American Prairie Reserve. For those who haven’t heard of the APR, it’s an interesting private initiative that started as a World Wildlife… Read more

Walking conversation! “Walking prompts a cascade of changes.” —Annabel Abbs This is going to be a short post—no links of stuff to read, for once—to share the information I just received for an event tomorrow… Read more