As my family recovers from the rush of Chirstmas and my kids enjoy a week off from school, we decided to spend some time diving into some books. We spent time in a barn eavesdropping on a conversation between a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. Charlotte seems to have a nasty habit of sucking the blood from [ Read More ]
Plato, a Greek philosopher who lived around 400 BCE, wrote the Allegory of a Cave to illustrate that we cannot rely on our senses to show us the world as it really is. A true understanding of the world can only come from intellectual pursuits. He believed that the road to intelligence and enlightenment should be the [ Read More ]
While reading Norma Howe’s The Adventure of Blue Avenger, I got to a part where the protagonist is sifting through his father’s books. His father had died in a car accident and the boy was left to learn about his father through the things he left behind. His father’s books seemed like the obvious place [ Read More ]
