After living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for most of my early life, the mountains in Maine seemed more like, well, hills. For the first few years I carried around a kind of dissatisfaction; a sentiment that, try as Maine might, it will never be New Hampshire. This kind of attitude kept me […]
The Latin word from whence we get “discipline”, literally means “instruction, knowledge.” So the lack, then, of discipline, must imply a lack of knowledge. This comes as a hard blow to someone like myself, who tends to think of a vice, such as procrastination, a mere employee to be taken in hand. I confess I
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When I was a kid and we would be out driving at night, my favorite thing to do was see all the houses with their lights on. I loved to imagine what other people’s worlds were like. Just a passing glimpse would give me a hint of the mysterious lives of perfect strangers. The biggest
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Last month marked the passing of Ravi Zacharias, a great teacher and apologist. His was the first book of substance I read willingly as a young adult, skeptical of digging deeper than complacency in the Christian faith. If you are unfamiliar with Ravi, his mission can be accurately summed up in his organization’s motto: “Helping
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Education is not a race. I had to tell myself this truth repeatedly throughout the year, and I think it’s finally starting to sink in. It is so easy to set goals for my children and then, despite my knowing different, pressure them and myself to “get it done”. This has been my approach to
