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Link the Hedgehog (Photographs)
I realized that my last blog post was bleak and kind of hopeless, so here are some pictures of a baby hedgehog! His name is Link. He belongs to a couple of my friends who live in Texas. (You can find...
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How Do You Map an Imaginary Country?
Read a fascinating article today by journalist Colin Woodard, who argues in his new book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, that America is actually...
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A Menagerie of Magical Creatures (Part 2)
[ This week I’ve been sharing some of my favorite fantastic beasts from the Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures. You can go here to see the first half of the alphabet. ] Nidhoggr The...
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Fourteen Questions About Heaven (Peter Kreeft)
Ran across this GREAT article by Catholic professor and writer Peter Kreeft answering fourteen of the most commonly asked questions about life in heaven, including: Can the dead see us? Is there music...
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Celtic Myths, Part 2: Isle of Man, Isle of Delights
I knew some of my favorite Celtic fairy tales came from the Isle of Man, but I didn’t know where the Isle of Man was. Apparently Ellan Vannin is a small island located in the Irish Sea between the...
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The Secret of Good Fantasy is to Write Honestly
Photo Credit: Aine McVey One of my goals for this year is to journal every day, which means I’ll probably be doing a lot more free-writing. I spent most of my Christmas break rewriting the...
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What Frozen Taught Me About How to Read the Bible
Frozen is one of those movies that stay with you. I’ve been thinking about it ever since I watched it again last week. Like most people I could empathize with Elsa’s longing to disappear into...
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Thirty Days of Poems: She’s Ubiquitous (Day 3)
She’s ubiquitous She wouldn’t call herself a genius but I know she is A novelist, an actress She’s on billboards and Broadway The...
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If Charles Dickens Wrote Contemporary Christian Music: or, God and the Grotesque
My first day of high school in 2000, my pre-AP English teacher (and Sunday school teacher, and super-woman) Mrs. Pauley ran through the list of everything we’d be reading in the coming trimester. Then...
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Joss Whedon’s Much Ado about Nothing Skirts the Line Between Comedy and Tragedy
This is the first post in a new series discussing my 40 favorite films. Groups can so easily turn against a single person, as I learned at the end of my freshman year in college 10 years ago this...
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