Some Monday Readings – Sept. 14, 2026

London’s ice cream wars – Jim Warerson, David Hall, and Polly Smythe at London Centric. 

The Other Side (of sad stories) – Glenn McCarty at Story Warren.

 

College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators – Barry Lam at College Town.

 

Don Quixote’s Guide to Better Reading – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.

 

9/11 and How the Western Left Continues to Shame Itself – Andrew Devine at The Devine Message.

 

A Prayer for Grandparents Day – Yuri Bezemov at How to Subvert Subversion.

 

Don’t Miss Your Opportunities – Terry Whalin at The Writing Life.

 

American nature: On a pair of exhibitions at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site – James Panero at The New Criterion.

 

Short Story, Deep Treasures: Biblical Allusion in “The Gift of the Magi” – John Savoie at Literary Matters.

Painting: Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire (1827), oil on canvas by Thomas Cole (1801-1848).

Some Wednesday Readings - Aug. 19, 2026

The Joy of Baseball – Daniel Darling at One Little Word. 

Know your rights as an author and don’t get scammed – Nathan Bransford.

 

Submerged memory: C.S. Lewis and the art of forgetting – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.

 

Remembering Blaise Pascal’s Night of Fire – Emily Kleinhenz at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

On the third day: On the religious illiteracy of college students – The New Criterion. 

 

Child – poem by Sonja Benskin Mesher.

 

Britain: How taboos have stifled truth – Guy Dampier at The Critic Magazine.

 

Short Story, Deep Treasures: Biblical Allusion in “The Gift of the Magi” – John Savoie at Literary Matters.

 

Flashback: The Uses of a Novella – my post at the American Christian Fiction Writers blog.

 

Painting: Blaise Pascal about 1691.