Truly He is Risen! Wishing all of our readers great joy on this Feast of feasts! Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.

Moral Luck Part 1 Welcome to the Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode … Read more

A Reframing Parenting is hard work; so hard that there are many times we simply grit our teeth to get through the moment. Whether it’s a toddler’s tantrum, a tween’s hormones, or a teenager’s experiments with independence and agency, it is simply a fact there are times when doing the right thing feels like a … Read more

Thank you for reading Patterns for Life — your support allows us to keep doing this work. If you enjoy Patterns for Life, it would mean the world to us if you invited friends to subscribe and read with us. If you refer friends, you will receive benefits that give you special access to Patterns … Read more

The Opposite of War is Not Peace Welcome to the Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of pie. Mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to … Read more

Meditations from Lisa and Laura, Lent 2024 Lisa: We’re halfway through Lent. When it began I had visions of being unplugged and having all this extra time at my disposal for prayer and contemplation. I imagined leaning into our studies and adding some extra spiritual reading to our days. I had every intention of carefully … Read more

Exploration and Delight Lately I’ve been dreaming about logarithms. I go to sleep thinking other thoughts and wake up on the verge of solving a difficult problem involving logs and their bases. Did you know that logarithms help you solve for unknown exponents? I wish somebody had told me this in high school. I don’t … Read more

Patterns for Life audio Chapter 2 Chapter 2 of Patterns for Life: An Orthodox Reflection on Charlotte Mason Education The content below was originally paywalled. As persons, we are all born with the possibility of cultivating good or evil. Therefore, we are responsible for helping our children to train their minds (similarly to the way … Read more

Just War Theory Welcome to The Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of pie. Mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode … Read more

Dear Disillusioned Homeschooling Mom, I’m sorry to hear that homeschooling is not exactly what you thought it would be. You were led to believe that since you’d embraced the Right Philosophy and had chosen the Right Curricula and had waited until the Right Time your children would take to reading like ducks to water and … Read more