This morning I met with a large group of my university’s incoming first year students for an orientation session; tomorrow (as you are reading this),

Last week was Wendell Berry’s 85th birthday, so it seems like the right moment to feature a couple of poems from his large output. Berry

There’s an old book by Henry Zylstra, Testament of Vision, that contains a assertion that I come back to again and again: literature should give

Many of you are doubtlessly familiar with Mary Oliver’s “The Summer’s Day”–with its moving invitation to attentiveness and to relishing one’s “one wild and precious

I may have moved to a condo in recent years, but I still have a wonderful little hanging pot of tomatoes on my back deck.

I had the delight this past semester to teach a “gen ed” global literature class that I nicknamed “Epic Journeys.” That means we read lots

I’ve grown to love what has become a bit of a tradition for me: to post prayers from my dear friend, Jane Zwart, every time

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, so I’ve been thinking not only of the many extraordinary teachers I’ve had in my own life but about the very