Professor Carol
We’re purging our record collection. The LPs are lined up against several walls. That’s what happens when you put two music Ph.D.’s of our age into the same late marriage. We’ve found someone to buy the collection. The purchase price is miniscule but we’re lucky … Read more
For this week’s post, I intended to return to the topic of Beauty as one of the three Transcendentals. But events of the past week have bumped me off that course. I needn’t tell you what occupies the front page of the newspapers here in … Read more
We are learning how to button buttons in our household. Granddaughter Patti’s Hello-Kitty pajamas have buttons, so this skill is now relevant. Plus, we want to surprise her momma once Patti learns how. We’re pairing the unveiling of “button-mastery” with Patti’s first public recitation of … Read more
In framing my talks on “Beauty” for this year’s conference season, I’ve profited from the wise and provocative words of the Swiss theologian Hans Ur von Balthasar (1905-1988). Balthasar wrote copiously about beauty in his bountiful output, including a massive seven-part work known as The … Read more
Not long ago, a group of us who share the vision of Classical Education decided to take on the name “Classical Consortium.” Sounds serious, doesn’t it? Well, mostly it’s been another nice way to deepen our relationships academically and personally. One of our projects has … Read more
If there can be “Christmas in July,” why not “Advent in June”? At least that’s the conclusion we reached today driving the first leg from Dallas to New Mexico en route to the Great Homeschool convention in Ontario California. More accurately, we began preparing for … Read more
Traveling through Virginia this week, I’m reminded about my own education in Virginia history while growing up in Roanoke in the 1950s and early 60s. It was a different era, of course, and those textbooks have long been replaced. Still, we were given a lasting … Read more
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Two empty seats in the middle of a crowded international flight? It’s rare, but we had them on a Lufthansa Frankfurt-to-Dallas fight I took last week. I sat on the right aisle of the middle section, happy to discover the adjacent seat empty. The woman … Read more
It really was there: tear-shaped chips of amber in the flotsam left by the lapping of the waves. We had stopped at Pärnu to drool over the beauty of the Baltic Coastline and look for amber. We scrambled out of the bus like kids, some of … Read more
In this episode of our podcast interviews with our favorite art historian, Dr. Peter Mooz explains how art is empowering. How do you foster a love for the arts in children? What if you do not live close to “big city” resources? Dr. Mooz gives some … Read more
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