The Recovering Hopper

  “W hat is the world, O soldiers? It is I: I, this incessant snow, This northern sky; Soldiers, this solitude Through which we go...

  So proud of Patch, now a thirteen-year-old Middle Schooler on her way to High School in ten months! She saved up all her allowance money, ...

  Despite my heartiest efforts, my children are not Tolkien fans. Perhaps it’s the coarsening of our culture and the desensitization that en...