A wonderful, inspirational post from Three Pennies about filling your home with Scripture. Also check this post, with pictures, from the same blog.

And maybe Charlotte, as in Charlotte’s Web by EB White, can inspire us to become better writers whether we write on webs or walls or computer screens. Spinning a Web: The Unobtrusive Perfection of Charlotte’s Web by Lauren F. Winner (Thanks to Kevin at Collected Miscellany for pointing me to this appreciation of Charlotte’s writing technique.)

George Grant on Reading Aloud “Silent reading is actually a fairly modern innovation. As late as the eighteenth century, it was thought that the best way to truly appreciate the classics was to read them aloud–all the better to relish the beauty of the words, the music of the composition, and the architecture of the ideas.”
And on the same note, the nanny at Poppins Classical Academy writes about how she and her children are enjoying not only reading aloud, but also reading in small snippets, a chapter or a few pages a day.

Patry Francis says the Rich have better cupcakes than the hoi-polloi. Who would have guessed it?

James M. Kushiner at Mere Comments blogs about tunes of lament for homes lost, not in New Orleans although the thoughts apply to that situation, but in many other places and other times. “I have bee(n) thinking of late, because readings, family history, and current events, about the fragility of even the places that we take for granted as our homes. The world is full of lost homes and lost homelands, and history is partly an itinerary of families moving to new homes and homelands for a host of reasons: war, famine, gold, persecution, family feuds, and so on.”