Poetry: Prelutsky – I met a dragon face to face

I met a dragon face to facethe year when I was ten,I took a trip to outer space,I braved a pirate's den,I wrestled with a wicked troll,and fought a great white shark,I trailed a rabbit down a hole,I hunted for a snark. I stowed aboard a submarine,I opened magic doors,I traveled in a time machine,and …

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Poetry: Stevenson – The Land of Storybooks

Home I return across the sea, And go to bed with backward looks At my dear land of Story-books.

Review: Defending Boyhood

Esolen's book states most simply and directly that it is good for boys to be boys that we might raise them into men.

Children’s Church Part 5 – A Closing Story

Written in January 2021 In the hours after my daughter’s birth, I saw a little blessing from God. Not only did I get to hold my daughter, but I was given a little comfort knowing that my daughter knew me and trusted me. She was being held by someone in the room and started crying. …

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Poetry: Frost – In a Disused Graveyard

"The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never any more the dead."