History, Real Life, and Faith
Do you ever find your mind wandering from something your body is doing and wake up to discover you’re thinking of something completely out of context? Say, when you’re dancing in your zumba class? How does the brain make make connections and why do they sometimes seem completely off? I ruminate on this oddity often at six o’clock in the…
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When you don’t live in a big city, visiting a place like London or New York means one thing: theatre! I’ve attended the theatre in London seven times in the last three years. I have several pointers for those interested in visiting the West End. Les Miserables 1. Don’t expect familiar musicals to be exactly what you’re used to. We saw…
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Reading biographies to understand my life.
When is it research and when is it voyeurism? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself as I’ve read through some of the diaries and letters I obtained during my recent swing through the south. The heroine‘s sister made me question the decision to read other people’s personal accounts when she scrawled a stern warning on the opening page of…
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How literature affects our life–whether we mean it to or not.
Have you ever been house touring? We’ve always enjoyed the scene in A&E’s Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth Bennett tours Mr. Darcy‘s mansion and shocks both of them by meeting him down by the lake. Apparently even 200 years ago, visiting the large unique homes of the wealthy was a tourist past time. Touring homes, however, is something I don’t…
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