Renaissance life in a post-modern world
Posted in Family and Children on Apr 29th, 2009
Franky was born into a world of silence. Stark, empty silence. He couldn’t hear our clamoring voices as we held him for the first time. He couldn’t hear the piano notes that drummed endlessly under the fingers of six older siblings. He couldn’t even hear his own cry.
Franky’s only access to the world of sound [...]
Posted in Finance on Apr 27th, 2009
When we relocated to Indiana eighteen months ago, we left our home in Northern Michigan unsold. Our plight was similar to dozens of others in our area. The dwindling manufacturing economy began forcing families out of Michigan long before the rest of the nation even began to ponder the word “recession”.
We visit our home as [...]
Posted in Saturday Inspiration on Apr 25th, 2009
“In a world full of sophistry and propaganda, we want to protect the rising generation from being deceived, to forearm them against the invitations to false sentiment and muddled thinking which printed words will so often offer them.
Unfortunately, the very same habit which makes them impervious to the bad writing may make them impervious also [...]
Posted in Recipes on Apr 22nd, 2009
A recent issue of Martha Stewart Living featured an array of cupcakes, each frosted in a beautiful pastel. Inside, recipes for cream-cheese frosting, brown-sugar frosting, and lemon frosting were featured along with seemingly endless recipes for the cupcakes themselves. All were collected into a stunning collage of dramatic photographs. I’ve been hungry ever since.
I love [...]
Posted in Education on Apr 20th, 2009
Mom’s obsession with drills of every shape and size stretches far into my distant memory. Images of hours spent on MathBlaster hover in my subconscious. Little pieces of floating space garbage still haunt my dreams. Our version of the program was rendered obsolete years ago and stories of geeky space aliens are now only legendary [...]
Posted in Saturday Inspiration on Apr 18th, 2009
“We thought that, perhaps,” said I, hesitating, “it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them.”
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Posted in Recipes on Apr 17th, 2009
The weekend is coming. It’s time to relax and spend time outside enjoying the newly arrived warm weather. Or not. If your to-do list is anything like the one on my desk, Saturday is probably more of an overflow bin for tasks remaining from the week than it is a day to relax. I wonder [...]
Posted in Recipes on Apr 16th, 2009
Welcome to Bona Vita’s new home! Be sure to subscribe by using one of the buttons provided. I am looking forward to contributing here over the coming months. For the moment, here’s a new recipe to try.
On a recent Saturday night, we had dinner with some dear friends at our Michigan home. Mom’s new recipe [...]
