“The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world,” opens one of the books I like to revisit during advent. (1) This fall, the story was presented as a movie in theaters,...
Is It for All? I Have Some Doubts.
As a lover of classical liberal arts education and a native member of a Democratic society, my immediate instinct was to answer this question, “Of course, classic...
A “disputed question,” or disputatio, is a form of writing that provides a well-reasoned answer to a wisdom question. Wisdom questions go beyond the acquisition of knowledge by considering how diff...
The trivium (or three paths) of grammar, logic, and rhetoric undergird nearly all classical schools. Although the trivium is taught in conjunction with the quadrivium of music, arithmetic, geometry...
I have cultivated a tiny garden at the front of our home. This garden has grown and changed while I myself have grown and changed. What began as a cutting bed— because I planted for color, form, an...
I am, among other things, a professional orchestral musician. My instrument is the French horn, which is so universally recognized as producing one of the most beautiful sounds that nearly every pi...
