Does This Taste Funny to You?Not long ago I wrote about the giddy pleasures of the tall-tale form in the wildly exaggerated physical courage of Pecos Bill. Today I want…
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Courage Quotation of the DayPhysical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man…
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What Would You Do if You Weren’t Afraid?“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is…
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CandlelightCandles are magical. The Lovely K. and I light candles at dinner most nights, and try to bring someone into our circle of flickering light…
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Quitters, Campers, and Climbers—Which One Are You?I would have thought that one of the side effects of writing a blog about courage would be an increase in my own courage quotient. In fact,…
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The Bloody Hook and Halloween Candy PoisonersWhen I was a teenager, we heard that two kids from a rival high school had been “parking” near the reservoir late one Saturday night….
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The Sea of Stories“Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained…
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Are You the Ant or the Grasshopper? And Which Are You Raising?A fable from Aesop that has seen a lot of play over the centuries is the Ant and the Grasshopper. The story extols the industrious…
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On a Journey“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” – Leo Tolstoy Lisa and…
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St. Francis and the Wolf of GubbioIf you spend a day at the museum with lots of old paintings, one of the easiest saints for children to recognize in sculpture and…
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