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And now for something completely different…

Posted on September 1, 2016 by lettersfromheartscontent

I am coming out of the closet. I here confess a great weakness: I don’t like to stay focused on one new interest very long. I reach a point where I feel I have learned the steps and I move … Continue reading →

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A Practicum in Grace

Posted on July 18, 2016 by lettersfromheartscontent

Dear Reader, I am sitting at a table before a soot-stained fireplace at a wee wood-shingled library in coastal Rhode Island. Just coming off my final practicum for Classical Conversations, I am resting with friends in their tiny cottage two … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on “Don’t Stay In School”

Posted on November 21, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

The other night I told my friend Katharine about David Brown’s scathing rebuke of education in England. She experienced the English school system herself. To my surprise, she confirmed important parts of his critique. When my 15 year old son … Continue reading →

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Faith is Not Enough

Posted on October 7, 2013 by lettersfromheartscontent

There I was, in church, listening to the sermon and struck by a discord. The presentation of the basic evangelical message clashed with the message I was mulling over from The Emperor’s Club. Both spoke of a way of life. … Continue reading →

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Writing Letters

Posted on June 10, 2012 by lettersfromheartscontent

Attention, my two readers! Letters from Heart’s Content has been brought under new management. (That’s still me.)  I am making some changes around here and blogging is a part of it.  I have kept a journal since I was 14 … Continue reading →

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Forward Motion

Posted on November 6, 2011 by lettersfromheartscontent

This week my students and my daughter are studying Inferences of Categorical Statements in Logic, taking a midterm on all the declensions in Latin, writing a paper on what they would be willing to work two years to accomplish, doing … Continue reading →

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Working on a Bridge

Posted on October 17, 2011 by lettersfromheartscontent

Did you see the covered bridge that went downstream when hurricane Irene slammed Vermont? The Bartonsville covered bridge used to stand a mile downstream from where I live. Every Tuesday on our way to Classical Conversations we would drive through … Continue reading →

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