It’s early September, which means my annual roundup of surprising archival discoveries. Here are some manuscript and painting (and sword)… Read more You found what in the attic?! 5th Edition
It’s early September, which means my annual roundup of surprising archival discoveries. Here are some manuscript and painting (and sword)… Read more You found what in the attic?! 5th Edition
It’s the last day of the month — and we started school today — so it feels like a good… Read more Favourite Things: August Edition
I’ve been so grateful to have this month off from school (we’re taking August off too, but I’m going to… Read more Favourite Things: July Edition
The Book of Kells is an intricately decorated manuscript codex of the Latin text of the gospels, created around 800… Read more Images from the Book of Kells
I must admit to losing steam for my blog and newsletter lately, but regardless here’s what I’ve been up to… Read more Favourite Things: June Edition
I can’t think of a clever intro, so without further ado here’s my summary of May. Read I’m a little… Read more Favourite Things: May Edition
I saw a t-shirt online that said, “2020 is a unique Leap Year. It has 29 days in February, 300… Read more Favourite Things: April Edition
What can I say about March? Day by day more and more things were cancelled: no more church, no more… Read more Favourite Things: March Edition
I hope you had a strong start to 2020. Here are a few of my favourite things this month… maybe… Read more Favourite Things: January Edition
In a discussion following our church service yesterday the pastor touched on a text of the early church called the… Read more Did You Know? The Didache
We’re hosting my family’s Christmas dinner tonight — there’ll be ham, plum pudding, a book gift exchange, maybe even Christmas… Read more Favourite Things: December Edition
I don’t have a lot of time for commentary tonight, but I hope you’ll find some takeaways from this list… Read more Favourite Things: November Edition
Today was a pristine October day; wearing long sleeves but no coats we picked apples at our old rental house… Read more Favourite Things: October Edition