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This week I took my 7th and 8th grade art students to visit the Modern art museum in Fort Worth. There were a lot of comments such as:...

For some months now, I have been consumed with starting this little school, Saint Anthonys' Academy. It is a place I first conceived of...

When I was at university there was a professor, Dr. Curtsinger, who was obsessed with Moby Dick. I never took any classes with him, but...

In our family, we listen to audiobooks constantly - in the car, playing legos, cooking, cleaning, getting ready to go to sleep. We have...

or "Part Two of My First European Adventure" In the summer of 1995, I made my first trek across Europe. I began by touring England and...

My husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s...

When I was a graduate student in literature, I came across two books that had a formative effect on my philosophy of education: John...

I remember listening in amazement in high school chapel at my Christian school as various guest speakers told of dramatic conversions...

The first time I remember seeing an icon was in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I was taking a class in Israel my sophomore year...

I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...

In our family, we have four very intense children, two adopted with trauma histories, one with secondary trauma, one with a missing...

Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...

Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who...

The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...

Various influences were dropped into my path that lead me into the Catholic Church, one of the most prominent being the work of Fyodor...