My tail!
One of my favorite scenes in C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, is when the ever-chivalrous mouse, Reepicheep, mortally wounded in battle, is brought (lying on a…
Evergreen
My office faces the woods. There's a tall-as-me pine tree in the foreground--in the middle of the bushes before the trees. In the winter he…
Sufficient
"Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?""I--I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only…
Adoration
"The life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration."J.I. Packer My kids laugh at my jokes. Nobody's told them, yet, that…
Knowledge and wisdom
You can have knowledge without wisdom. But you can't have wisdom without knowledge. The most knowledgeable person you know might not be the most insightful.…
Curiosity
"Remember, class, curiosity is always favorable to convenience." Clark clicked his pen and wrote: Curiosity is always favorable to convenience, on his clipboard under the…
Advice and warnings
Middle-age is disorienting. You arrive at this place where you shift from mostly asking questions to mostly answering questions. This is not to say that…
Mommy’s pet peeve
Burnt coffee. Long lines. Parking meters. Missing keys. What's your pet peeve? How many do you have? How much power do they have to ruin…
Apology accepted
We don't really like to apologize, do we? It's humiliating to admit we were wrong--it smarts. But if we can be swift about it--both in…
Teaching
"Is the purpose of a teacher to flunk a student? Tell him what he doesn't know? No. It is to tell him what he needs…