Extra Thoughts

  And now for something completely different by  Lydia McGrew (Originally published at What's Wrong With the World. Link to original pos...

He had never thought of the Olympian figures of the Close as in need of compassion;...All of them, and especially the...Dean, had seemed to...

Just recently I have been re-reading Elizabeth Goudge's The Heart of the Family. This book has been so helpful to me spiritually that ...

Writing a book is much the same as any other kind of creative work, painting or carpentry or embroidery or having a baby, an act compounded...

[B]ecause in the realms both of vision and morality he was in the kindergarten, his effort at self-expression was comparable to a child...

'Tis true that I've been neglecting this blog, but I just haven't been sufficiently inspired to do a lot of separate posts in tw...

"I am a burden to you. I should go away. Please, admit it. I am a burden to you." "I will not admit such a thing." ...

"Men choose one side or the other, making the best choice that they can with the knowledge that they have. Yet they know little and the...

It has been exactly twenty years since I was in graduate school getting a degree in English Literature. The state of the discipline was depr...

A book I sometimes talk about but am hesitant to recommend is Richard Adams's The Girl in the Swing. I hesitate to recommend it because...

I have a post on her books over on What's Wrong With the World. I wouldn't dream of trying to recreate all the quotations and stuff...