I have a rule whenever I see that Laura Fabrycky has written something: I read it. christianitytoday.com/2025/05/dietri…

so much depends upon a red water melon glazed with rain water beside the black chickens

If, like me, you love Golden Age detective fiction and the poetry of W. H. Auden: blog.ayjay.org/when-auden-was…

I'm always tickled when writing ten pages requires reading ~20,000 (not all pictured here).

Here I am at the blessed First Things: Calendar Rituals firstthings.com/calendar-ritua…

I set a reading goal this yr: to read and then properly shelve all of the books on my designated TBR shelf. W/completion of Braiding Sweetgrass (I recommend!!) I am 16 down, 7 to go. Next up, Dangers of Christian Practice.

H/t Prufrock theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06/0…

Elisabeth Elliot: A Life makes the list, and I see some other old friends in there as well. thegospelcoalition.org/article/readin…

I have a new, specially-commissioned article about Josephine Tey in "The Bottle Imp", the online magazine of Association for Scottish Literature. If you're interested in my biography of Tey, you don't want to miss this as it has news of a new Tey project I've been working on thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/06/joseph…

I recommend this biography, which I reviewed when it was first published.

Imagine how mad Willa Cather must have been about this renovaton to include this footnote in a novel

This sign sums things up perfectly #assistedsuicide

Yes. Nothing quite like being in comp spaces where earnest women are willing to "die to self" on a number of fronts b/c of interps of a handful of verses & then realizing that headship/protection framework of church leaders was all talk. 1/2

' In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

What if everyone--wonderful that it is so many!--who remembered Jane Greer here bought her in-print books from Lambing Press and read them? Or gave them as gifts? Bouquets of words, full of life, from Jane Greer to us...

From Quentin Bell's life of Ruskin, and a perfect example of why I love concise biographies as opposed to doorstoppers (although I love doorstoppers too):

Was standing in the dark yard looking up at the stars still enough and long enough that a little black shrew came and sat his velvet butt right beside my foot, eating a seed pod of something and also, I assume, looking up at the stars. What a tiny thing in which to see heaven.

On this day in 1866, Beatrix Potter was born—an author, illustrator, preservationist, scientist, and visionary whose pen brought lovable little protagonists to life and whose heart helped preserve the very landscapes that inspired their stories. Happy Birthday, Beatrix Potter!

What if love looks like sewing a teddy bear’s button back on? My latest Tiny Wonders is about Corduroy, my daughter’s sewing camp, and the gospel of mending. Link below. 📖🧵

When I was reading War & Peace aloud to my family, I expurgated the part where the horse dies.