Tales From Shangri-La

" Nirvana " by Charles Bukowski, read by Tom Waits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVzCURucaA http://talesfromshangri-la.blo...

Helpful piece on what to say when your friend is grieving. Yes, You Should Say Something

Based on just a few factors, psychologist John Gottman can predict with up to 94 percent certainty whether a marriage will succeed or fail. ...

Love these two pretty songs about real, grown up romance. Remember When -- Alan Jackson Something That We Do -- Clint Black

An interior designer told me once the most common mistake she sees are people hanging pictures too high. They are supposed to be at around e...

Three publications look at how to develop your frontal lobe function --  Psychology Today --  Sharp Brain --  Ideas from NaturalHeal...

This poem was written by Walt Whitman for Abraham Lincoln at his death. I read it at the funeral of my grandfather, a retired Navy Captain a...

I love this piece. Thinking of all of my friends' moms growing up, and the Navy moms on different bases, and my own delightful friends w...

It's 10:30 pm on a Friday night and I'm about to clap shut my laptop. Today is my last day as a homeschooling mom. I have taught a...

...written and read by Robert Frost -- read when he was an older man. Whose woods these are I think I know

Check out Cartermere Farms here in North Texas, owned and operated by a creative, enterprising family who also attend my son's universi...

Reading fiction is good for you. http://blog.theliteracysite.com/how-reading-fiction-improves-intelligence/?utm_source=twc-twcfan&utm_...

Succinct, honest, and thoughtful: from First Things : Evangelical Colleges and Self Loathing

A home schooling friend sent me this prayer, cited at the Aquinas College website as one of Thomas Aquinas's prayers. It's a good on...

David sent this along to me today -- sensible reasons and practical ways for all students to read and study the classics -- even business ma...

In the New York Times , Ross Douthat counters Milbank et al 's arguments that the only way for Planned Parenthood to provide family plan...

Paper airplanes: warm, sweet ad about a military childhood, and about fathers, sons, and good neighbors. Paper airplanes

"When we preach the gospel, we preach the promise of new life, new mind, new hope, new purpose, new union with Christ, new compan...

My retrospective on Elisabeth Elliot at The Gospel Coalition blog. Elisabeth Elliot has died . I didn’t know her, but this feels persona...

I'm posting this as I sit here in my flip-flops and exercise shorts. Maybe someday I'll incorporate this consistently. Hope springs ...