Author: Liz
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Links to Recipes and What I’m Making For Supper
Fall often brings cooking inspiration, and something about the change, the weather, the shift to indoors that I know is coming, makes me want to cook and bake more. I don’t consider myself much of a cook, but I knew there were a few recipes on So She Reads. I gathered them together and see…
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The Bookmark: August
Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, Vincent van Gogh,1888, oil on canvas, Arles, France. August tends to feel momentous. One notices a feeling in the air. There’s a birthday. There’s the end of summer that’s so sad and sweet at the same time. There’s the garden harvest that’s now or never. There’s…
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The Christian Hymnal: A Review
There’s a local legend about a statician who kept track of songs sung in church at a particular congregation. On the spreadsheet, he found the most often led song was number 35, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. It was sung eight times over a span of five years. Is that all the oftener we…
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Teacher Links
Here’s a list of all the school related articles on So She Reads, and links to take you to them. Incidentally, some of these have been our most popular posts, so have a look around and be inspired. Another fall, another turned page. -Wallace Stegner Abeka and CLE Curricula Curriculum Part 2 Teachers Are Influencers…
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The Bookmark: From Middlemarch to St. Crispian’s in July
The books I read not only speak to me, they speak to each other. For two months I have been reading Middlemarch by George Eliot. When available, I have been listening to the Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower. This review is going to compare and contrast the two books. I’ve been…
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The Bookmark: June
Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, Vincent van Gogh,1888, oil on canvas, Arles, France. A bobolink flies from post to post in front of me as I take my walk. That’s what pulls me out every day to see if he’s still there. I’m not sure how many walks I will have…
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Add Some Whimsy to Your View
Yesterday I hung a banner on my (empty) chickenhouse. I used scraps of cotton. They were cut different sizes in an attempt to not waste any. I serged the edges and sewed them to another piece of scrap fabric to string them together. Here’s a closer picture so you can adapt it to your own…
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The Bookmark: May
Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book, Vincent vanGogh,1888, oil on canvas, Arles, France. As I sit on the porch on an early summer afternoon, the clouds are gathering. To the south and west some blue sky is visible, but all other parts of the sky are shades of gray, gray-blue and sun…
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An Obligation to Beauty
Christina’s World, Andrew Wyeth, 1948, Contemporary Realism A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. -Michael Pollen in Second Nature Apparently, our yard is particularly suited to the thistle. I have never seen such huge, healthy plants. The stems are easily an inch in diameter, the leaves are a foot long and three inches wide, with…
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The Power of Intent: Habits for Life On Purpose
All paintings on this page by Claude Monet, 1840-1926, Impressionism Living intentionally requires a person to be intentional! At first, it is hard work, much harder than the old, unhelpful habits. Living with intention means always on — at first. Every response and reaction is up for research. Every focus and flow is questioned. You…