I Am No Longer Against Fox Hunts

by applewooddollhospital | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog, Essays

            My exposure to fox hunting was entirely via television and, in particular, the movie Mary Poppins.  Like most children who saw that movie, I was greatly distressed for the poor,...

Fending Off Cougars in the Age of Divorce

by applewooddollhospital | Jul 28, 2025 | Blog, Essays

            I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I pretend to be a writer so I stay busy.  Ipso facto, the age of divorce kind of snuck up on me.  Having lived some life, I knew a...

How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?

by applewooddollhospital | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog, Essays

            One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in striped jump suits in my social media feed.  There was such joy in the pictures!  My heart was...

25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird

by applewooddollhospital | Jan 25, 2025 | Blog, Saturday Fairy Eggs

My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. “Don’t they hibernate?” He’d seen it on SpongeBob so it must be so. We found out that some squirrels do hibernate, but many don’t. Which is why they...

Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt

by applewooddollhospital | Nov 5, 2024 | Blog, Essays

            Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per se, but lately, I can certainly see what Saint John meant when he said “the whole world is in the power of the Evil One.” (1 John 5:19)...