Heat and Light in Jane Austen’s Novels (Part 1): Fire

At the heart of every household in Jane Austen’s time, a fire burned. Fires provided a fixed source of heat and light, around which people gathered and moved, cooked and cleaned, lived and socialized. And while it’s lovely to imagine that families in Austen’s day gathered together in the evening simply because they enjoyed one another’s company, drawing near the...

Love Letter from God

This time last year, I was in a deep wilderness time. I felt lost, I was broken up emotionally, and I was at loose ends. Many of the things I...

Little Women

The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.”...