Tag: home
The Land of Storybooks
At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.
Now,...
Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch
Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.
A Little Home Cooking
Richmond, VA
I do not think it outrageous, every now and then, to despair for the future of cooking in this country. Not all the...
Something’s Fishy–But Not Very–At Dinnertime
Ingham County, MI
As darkness falls upon what a friend of mine charitably calls “Jack-Ass Acres,” and as the promise of rain comes with the...
A Man’s Home Is His Castle
Hidden Springs Lane. After too long, I finally got around to watching The Castle (1997), a film recommended by FPR’s Jeff Polet. It’s a...
Longing for Home Over Glory: An Artful Interpretation of the Epic...
Dramatic paths to glory are viewed with skepticism in our modern democratic age. As Tocqueville suggests, “amongst democratic nations ambition is ardent and continual,...
The Night of Susurrant Voices
God didn't put twelve months on the calendar so we could work them all.