For some months now, I have been consumed with starting this little school, Saint Anthonys' Academy. It is a place I first conceived of in graduate school tw...

When I was at university there was a professor, Dr. Curtsinger, who was obsessed with Moby Dick. I never took any classes with him, but I remember the bumpe...

Despite many trips to Washington DC, I had never been to the Smithsonian American Art Museum until this summer. It is not one of the museums along the Nation...

In our family, we listen to audiobooks constantly - in the car, playing legos, cooking, cleaning, getting ready to go to sleep. We have listened to hundreds ...

In the fall of 1995, I traveled to Italy to study for the semester at the University of Dallas Rome campus, located just outside of Rome in a historic area c...

My husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener and...

When I was a graduate student in literature, I came across two books that had a formative effect on my philosophy of education: John Senior’s Restoration of ...