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Few Words: An Elaborated Digression on Brevity

We talk too much and so often too loudly without listening. I blame social media and Bravo TV for part of this, along with our …

Posted on July 2, 2024September 11, 2024
Living

Chicken T.V.

Like anyone moving to a new home, my husband and I had certain things we were looking for: proximity to a Biblical church, driving distance … Read More ›

Posted on April 16, 2024January 30, 2024
Living

Friends & Spouses: The Preparation

Let us focus on cultivating the kind of soul that is capable of self-gift. Marriage isn’t an institution that “fixes’ men. Yes, it can temper them ,,,

Posted on April 9, 2024May 20, 2024
Living

Friends & Spouses: The Pursuit

Without too much fanfare, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics remains a classic that ought to be studied over and over, even as the literature on it …

Posted on April 2, 2024May 20, 2024
Living

My Children’s Pupil

When I was a child, I remember thinking that being grown-up was a destination or a finish line to cross. Now, after graduating college, getting … Read More ›

Posted on March 26, 2024January 16, 2024
Living

What’s Your Name Again?

Aficionados of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels will be aware that black tie (tuxedo for our American cousins) was considered for most of the twentieth century … Read More ›

Posted on February 6, 2024January 9, 2024
Thomas Sleete on dementia and friendship for Salt & Iron SeasonedWriting.com
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Facing the Loss that Comes with Age

I’m losing my oldest friend. Six years ago my wife — my love and half of me — died. Two years later, my cousin, with whom I shared …

Posted on August 8, 2023August 7, 2023
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Gardening with God

The world began with a garden. “This is not new information,” you say. True. Nevertheless, it is an amazing thing to contemplate. Eden must …

Posted on August 1, 2023July 24, 2023
Elizabeth Hance on virtuous men from Jane Austen novels for Salt & Iron: SeasonedWriting
Living

Jane Austen’s Model of Manhood

In his 1943 work, The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis famously wrote about the crisis he saw among young men. He lamented the younger generation’s … Read More ›

Posted on June 27, 2023June 25, 2023

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