Headed toward Stressa on Lago Maggiore (Ross Peters) In advance of a trip to Italy two summers ago, my wife bought a entry level DSLR camera. We were going to be there about a month, so […]
Devotion to the Task…Are You Ready?
Are you ready? It is the time of year when summer athletic practices begin in earnest, and along with some parents, faculty members, and alumni, I was a spectator for the Boys Cross Country time trial this morning. Poised at the starting line at 8:00 a.m., there looked to be about forty-five nervous, already sweaty […]
The Comfort of Poetry during the Move to Atlanta
We have to wait for just the right day, and unfortunately for an English teacher trying to work with some sort of course plan, I cannot identify that day until it arrives on the lawn, buried in an assortment of leaves. In Sonnet 73, Shakespeare asks us to look out into autumn, a particular moment […]
Thankful not to be the Prince of Denmark
A final one today from the archives… [What follows is a Vespers talk from Asheville School] December 5, 2004 Readings: Psalm 23 Hamlet 2.2.318-333 That Hamlet is a pretty smart guy, and in the audience we know it from the first moment he speaks to us. Indeed his first line of the play is directed […]
Tribute to Mrs. Alley
[A second piece from my archives. I made the remarks that follow as part of the Cum Laude Induction Ceremony at Hawken School on April 30, 2009.] My mother recently sent me an article from the Richmond Times Dispatch. This is not an unusual sort of post from my mother […]
Doers of the Word and Meditations of the Heart
As a way of getting this blog started, I plan to pull several pieces of writing from my personal archives as a way of introducing myself. The first piece is a chapel talk that I gave at Asheville School on September 10, 2006. The service preceding my talk included James I: verses 1-22 and Psalm […]