The first Wednesday of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. Theodore Rex was as good as its early chapters promised. I’m impatiently waiting for a copy of Colonel Roosevelt, volume three of this Theodore Roosevelt biography writtenContinue reading “Open Book: Jacques Maritain, Theodore Roosevelt, & Allen V. Koop”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
St. John Paul on savoring nature
A drive through the mountains evokes words of Pope St. John Paul.
Banned Books Week: thanks, but I’ll pass
It’s “Banned Books Week.” The American Library Association rolls out this observance every year to “highlight…the value of free and open access to information” and “draw… national attention to the harms of censorship.” As an American who prizes the First Amendment and who writes and reads what she pleases, I suppose I should be allContinue reading “Banned Books Week: thanks, but I’ll pass”