Fireside Musings

The time has come for me to move –   to a new website. I will not be posting here any more, which is crazy to think about, but I will be p...

Context is usually dangerously important; without it we make wrong conclusions and decisions. Seasons offer an important context to music, b...

Corrie ten Boom: Faith Amidst Fear by Sam Wellman Just over 200 pages, this biography was very short. I liked reading about Corrie's li...

Every couple of weeks I assessed the reading abilities of my Kindergarteners. I called individuals to my desk and had each one read a set o...

I had been recognizing some snippy responses and selfish attitudes in myself, and I was ready to be done with them, so I prescribed myself m...

The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis academic and philosophical. It had never before occurred to me to think half of those thoughts. Having t...

Do you remember the story of Paul, traveling to Rome as a prisoner ? They are well on their way when a storm blew in and wreaked havoc. The ...

Earlier this Spring, I bought birdseed and filled the little bird feeder by the window. I sat there, watching the many finches and cardinals...