Must say, have completely adjusted to the slower pace of life. Don’t even really wake up anymore before 7. So that’s really terrible. This is probably my ideal existence (except for the whole world being on fire). I am really good at drifting from one thing to the next, no aim or ambition to sharpen my wits or focus my mind. It suits me. Also, a dear dear friend sent me some bubble-bath in the mail. Feeling practically Victorian, especially... Read more
I’m working on the next section of Mr. Reno’s piece from Monday, but it’s taking me a moment on account of how I didn’t wake up at the crack of dawn but slept in till 7. Not that I would have known it was dawn because of the heavy cloud cover blanketing this sometimes-sunny town. So, because it’s like 9:30 and I’m pretty sure I should go wake up some kids or something, I thought it would be fun, having... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm today, swinging wildly in all the directions. ************************************************************************************ Rusty Reno, over at First Things, has been digging himself in for the last week, about how the church, and now even the government, should be handling this thing—this thing, of course, being an illness that is sweeping across the world, an illness that one can spread without knowing one has it for up to 14 days, an illness that afflicts the elderly disproportionately to the young and... Read more
Well, it is March, so it is snowing. So that’s great. By great, obviously, I mean the opposite of that. We have done a shortish podcast because we–well, who knows, our school quarter ends today, there are piles of make-up work, everyone is squabbling, and I should probably go back a cake or something. And, I won’t lie, I have barely any links and haven’t read all the way through the few I have. Don’t know if this is good... Read more
I’ve spent the last forty-five minutes reading two kinds of articles online—the ones that rage that this is completely overblown (I’m not going to bother to say what This is, I expect the entire world knows), and those that holler that we aren’t panicking enough. In between, I read articles about whether the church is literally giving up and dying, or whether it is doing entirely the right thing by making everyone stay home today. I scrolled and scrolled in... Read more
It’s hard to get a good picture of this cat. Gosh is he relaxed. Have so lost all track of days and seasons and hours and meaning. Is it time for takes? One Seriously happy that the three sick kids were all standing up last night. They immediately went and lay down again, but still, it was pretty great. Two They did lie around in the living room for an hour in the evening so that we could finally finish... Read more
Jesus, reading the words of “Imagine.” Should I be numbering the days? They’re all starting to run together one upon another. The only true goodness that I can report is that I managed to deep clean the kitchen. Feels about as effective as rearranging the chairs on the Titanic, but at least now they are “clean” chairs. I also baked a lot of bread. No one feels well enough to eat it, but at least I did something that I... Read more
This is only day three of our own little family quarantine and I’m already whooped. Mostly I wander from kid to kid and in between clean the kitchen over and over. Last night I went to bed at 8 for real, instead of only promising to. I’m not feeling at peak health myself, in spite of doing everything I’ve been commanded to do, so that may be why. I did manage to read this First Things piece about why the... Read more
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I have three kids down with very suspicious symptoms and, after a short chat with the doctor on the phone, we are all under “at least” a fourteen-day quarantine. I have actually been up for a couple of hours, but haven’t really had time to sit here and think straight. So far I’ve been emailing teachers asking for extensions for assignments that my children were working on at the very moment they began to be feverish.... Read more
Well, who are we to buck any kind of trend. The whole world is talking about coronavirus so we did too. We’ve done up a little podcast about what books you should read while you’re stuck inside–the Bible obviously–and a few others. We give advice for how to read the Bible if you’re doing it for the first time, and why it is such a difficult book. Turns out, besides the Bible, I’ve unwittingly gathered to myself a pile of... Read more
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