Landscape Plotted and Pieced

First an update: I’ve added my Faerie Queene class to my classes page here . I’m selling this previously recorded year-long class for $600,...

My bedtime reads are nearly all comfort reads—detective stories, old favorites, classic children’s literature, with the occasional new-to-me...

I've been unavoidably delayed in preparing these classes owing to an unexpected family difficulty which has been occupying all my attent...

 Found on Alan Jacobs' blog : ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ From a sermon preached by John Donne on the evening of Christmas Day at St. Paul’s in 1624:   ...

I've taken my Ballad of the White Horse read-aloud from a few years ago, have added some resources (including a discussion group!), and...

  In Wednesday’s post I said I was surprised to find that I hadn’t shared Dryden’s “Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” before. I’ve just come ac...

Boethius playing the monochord Anonymous, Cambridge, University Library Public Domain Link “Pythagoras and his followers devoted a great d...

For many years in our home school I read G.K. Chesterton's poem "The Ballad of the White Horse" to my kids during the month of...

 During our Morning Prayers today one of the Psalms we happened to read as part of our regular rotation was Psalm 41, which has this passage...

  Planting tip: Blackberries don't bloom till after your last frost Last week I wrote about the season ; today I want to share some trad...