“Lambeth actually knew how to be charming if he had a willing audience. If anybody was watching who knew what actual charm was, the effect was totally other than charming, but whenever someone wanted to be charmed—as Elizabeth most certainly did—he knew how to ladle it out of the pot.”
The Letters Are Light for a Reason
Letter to the Editor: The posting is going to be light this as week, as I am going to be off on vacation. There will be just a handful of things to keep you all from forgetting about me. ...
How Humility Deflects
“Many good men do not suspect the cause of the antipathy directed at them because they are too humble to think they might be the object of anything like envy.”
That America Is Gone Now
Introduction: Sometime last week, Kevin DeYoung outraged the already outraged by suggesting that it is time for faithful believers to think about a new culture wars strategy. Given that he ...
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Which Is Pretty Quick
“But when he was away from her, when he was left alone with his own thoughts, his intellectual confidence that he would eventually win her would evaporate like dew off a melon in August.”
Not Totally Surprising
Why Not, If the Play Usually Works?
“She also had a definite sense that here was a man on the verge of declaring himself, declaring his affections. She had been in this situation before, and she could tell that in this one respect, he was not departing from the playbook that all men apparently had.”
Which Can Be a Fierce Look
“Savannah remembered a book she had read years before when she was a little girl in which the heroine had tossed her curls. She thought of doing that now, but didn’t do anything. But the way she stood there at the doorway looked as though she just had tossed them.”
Some Principles for the Great Relocation
Introduction: So we have every reason to believe that we are about to witness a massive demographic shift in the United States. I am talking about what amounts to a large number of refugee columns, ...
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Motions of Time
“The time until Sunday morning went by so slowly that it ached, and after she spoke with him about meeting the next day, that time flew by so quickly there were a few moments she thought she felt the breeze in her hair.”