The Eagle & Child

At the supper table today, the kind of honesty you rarely get between adults: Madeline: From the side your head looks like it’s really skinny. Me: Does it?  But I really have a fat head? Madeline: Well, you have sort of a fat head. . . . Madeline: You should really dress up as Santa [...]

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Well, Dixie is on her way back home from The Field.  I expect her home in two hours or so.  Apparently she’s a changed woman.  So would I be, after a good number of days in a Field, with miles of nature in every direction.  Well, not a changed woman, but changed or at least [...]

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By the way, it was never officially announced, but The Eagle & Child (this blog, for the unitiated) went out of beta back in December 2003. But I digress. G.K. Chesterton, as quoted in The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People (John Ortberg): Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in [...]

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In light of the success of my last advice column/post, in which I lay out the formula for success in marriage, I now present you with my 10 Rules for Successfully Raising Your Children:

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Isn’t bedtime supposed to be a special time of the day?  A time of cuddling with your children, telling them stories and singing them quiet songs, and then tucking those precious little yawning gems snuggly into their beds?  Isn’t that how it’s supposed to go? Why is it that in our house bedtime is the [...]

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