Review: The Wingfeather Saga

We long for the Shining Isle, and we long for the Home that is prepared for us. I hope you will read these books with your children and be inspired, encouraged, and enlivened.

Review: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

While the book may appear at first to be an old-fashioned quest wrapped up in a time-traveling historical fiction novel, A Connecticut Yankee somehow manages to be more than that.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Favorite Scenes

No book is truly ever the work of one person. Some people offer inspiration, others support, and some even tangible help. Such is the case with this book. I had a couple of friends and my husband to help me shape up this book. They provided criticism and feedback on this commentary which I am …

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Poetry: Dickenson – There is no Frigate like a Book

There is no Frigate like a BookTo take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a PageOf prancing Poetry –This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll –How frugal is the ChariotThat bears the Human Soul – Simple, elegant, and contained within itself. This poem lends itself to be what it instructs: a frugal chariot …

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Poetry: Kipling – The Gods of the Copybook Headings

"As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!" Kipling - The Gods of the Copybook Headings