Growing up
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I…
She’s our Princess
While my two brothers and I were growing up, our family had an Australian Shepherd. She was a red merle. I remember getting her as…
Fear factors
Lots of scary stuff out there. How shall we steward our emotions when bombarded? One of the first things to do is to wisely distinguish…
Clarity
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.C.S. Lewis,…
Translation
Long words save time because they carry the meaning of longer sentences, even paragraphs, of information. Can you translate yourself? Can you break it down…
On friendship
C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, and J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were friends.…
It’s too prickly
Of course, we don’t naturally like all textures, do we? That scratchy shirt, or the textures of certain foods we don’t prefer. C.S. Lewis, in…
It’s soft
"I love this shirt because it's soft." What are you talking about? Until I met Diedra--my high school sweetheart, now wife--It never would have occurred…