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  • Thanksgiving and the Uncongenial Family

    “If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known. And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives.”  -G.K. Chesterton In the United States we are gearing…

  • Sigrid Undset as the Days Grow Shorter

    It’s becoming progressively cooler here where I am dwelling west of the Atlantic, and south of the North Pole. The winter air has moved in, and, over the weekend, the leaves tumbled off the trees causing their sudden barrenness to stand in dark relief to the white winter skies. We have made several fires in the fireplace, and the shoulder…