Category: Blog

Captain Wentworth’s Umbrella

A crowded shop scene in Jane Austen’s Persuasion causes spectacular tension between Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth on a rainy day in Bath. (It’s worth re-reading here if it’s been a...

Emily of New Moon

Last year, the L.M. Montgomery Institute blog held an Anne of Green Gables read-along; it was so popular that they decided to hold an Emily of New Moon read-along this year. It’s currently in full swing and...

Celebrate small victories.

When I think of victory, I usually think of complete, ground-into-powder-under-my-heel types of victories. TOTAL victory. But more and more, I find myself rejoicing in the small victories all around...

I want more.

I don’t like being “on the fringe” of most anything. If you’re on the fringe of a group of friends, you’re not really part of the core group; you just...