What if natality—rather than mortality—had the last word?
A gift guide for graduates
Graduation season is coming up! If you are stumped for gift ideas for your favorite high-school and college grads, we have put together a starter gift guide for you. Sure, you could always just put some cash in a card. […]
Ideas in progress: Dixie Dillon Lane on parenting, homeschooling, and writing while juggling
You are a historian and a homeschool mom of four. What does a “typical” day look like for you? I roll through my day like a boulder careening down an unpredictable hill. I place a lot of structure on my […]
Ivana Greco on homeschooling: today at the Institute for Family Studies blog
It is strange, but patently true, that young boys often learn best while upside down. Or if they aren’t upside down, they often need to be moving, or at least doing something with their hands. Their proprioceptive, vestibular, and optical […]
What I am reading: lessons on marriage from Janice Holt Giles
Marriage roles are hotly contested in our society. Wrapped up as they are not just in the deeply important work of the family but also in debates over conceptions of biological sex itself, these roles are difficult to define. Efforts […]
Caledonia
Is anything more necessary than music that tells us who we are?
What I am reading: Dixie Dillon Lane
My first year of parenting was terrifically hard. It was not just because I had had a difficult pregnancy (though I had) and a colicky, sleepless dear little baby (though I did), but because I thought that the hard parts […]
The Hidden Seasons of Grief
In the face of our social silence, human kindness is an irreplaceable balm