DarwinCatholic

Four weeks into the school year, for us. This year we're using Catholic Heritage Curriculum, with daily schedule. How's it going? ...

Non-spoiler review: Beautifully filmed, poignantly acted story of an Irish immigrant eventually forced to make a difficult choice between...

Rosamund Hodge, this week's  New York Times #3 Bestselling Author for YA E-Books  who is also Darwin's sister, has her new novel Bri...

Perhaps in your life, you've heard someone pray for a "secret intention" or request prayers in some way that sounds so mysteri...

Every so often I go back and check to see how this year's candidates are doing compared to how Romney and Obama were doing at the same t...

This is the beginning of the third week of high school for our oldest, and the question I ask her most evenings is, "How's your rea...

A  new online role playing game called Ever, Jane is in the open beta phase of development , designed to appeal to Jane Austen fans who crav...

It is my policy, generally, not to write in rage, so after composing and trashing several mental reams ranging from the furious to the maudl...

There's a rather poor case for Trump masquerading as an intellectual one at the Claremont Review of Books under the title "The Flig...

While we were on vacation, I picked up a slender Image book from a shelf, part of the very random collection of books scattered throughout t...

Well, there's no way to tell this so I come out looking good, so I'll just say it: we're starting our schoolwork for the year to...

There's a piece in Friday's Wall Street Journal about novelist Ian McEwan's upcoming book, Nutshell. The idea for the extremely...

The first headline I was read something like "Survivors of Aurora Shooting Forced To Pay Cinemark $700k!" Of course, that kind of...

Darwin and I each received a letter from CPS, closing our case . We were thanked for allowing the caseworker to talk with us about our famil...

Years ago my brother signed up for a program which made the background cycles of the family computer available to the SETI program . Comput...

Three fine performances, and a deeply unstable moral core. Meryl Streep is excellent as Florence Foster Jenkins, a lady with more money ...

We are all back at home, finally, after a jaunt to New York to pick up the big girls from a two-week visit to their uncle. We stayed with An...

Coincidence served to provide us a teaching example on Sunday. Our town was hosting a 70.3 Ironman race: 1.2 miles swimming, 56 miles bicyc...

On the corner two blocks over sits an edifice of brick. It looks to be an entire apartment building, but is, as I've heard, inhabited by...

Everything I want to write has been percolating in my head. Each day on vacation I had such lovely posts brewing. How we hiked 9.2 miles up ...