Patrick Brontë, Homeschool Dad

Patrick Brontë, Homeschool Dad

The dining room where novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë studied and later honed their craft together. I didn’t know Patrick Brontë, father of famous authors Charlotte, Emily and Anne, was a homeschool hero. But that’s what I figured out on a...
Time travel, Doctor Who, and Alchemists

Time travel, Doctor Who, and Alchemists

While in England, I did a bit of time traveling. Those stone circles are just full of space-time energy, you know, and I was able to take advantage of that. See? Doctor Who must have been following me. His time-traveling telephone call box (painted red instead of blue...
C.S. Lewis’s Lamppost

C.S. Lewis’s Lamppost

What inspired C.S. Lewis for his Narnia tales? I looked around Oxford recently for an answer to that question, and I found this odd lamppost. Lewis would have passed it regularly as he left the faculty gate at Magdalen College, where he worked. It seems definitely out...