The House of Christmas

And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy” (Luke …

TCS – A Window to Our Community

It’s Thursday night. Perhaps you have spent your day wiping noses and bottoms while also convincing your five-year-old to write row after row of a lower case ‘e’ that looks like English instead of ancient Sanskrit. Meanwhile the baby is trying to drop her morning nap, and the toddler is obsessed with the math manipulatives and executes a flop tantrum …

TCS House System and Communitas

The House System is a time-honoured structure of student body organization originating in British boarding schools and still prominent there on many campuses.  Students were initially grouped according to the actual boarding house in which they lived and a structure of leadership, social interaction, and competition grew up around that organization.  Implementation of a House System at non-boarding boarding schools …

Rome 2019

MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN… When people ask about my trip to Rome, I am never sure what to tell them. The problem is not that I don’t have enough to say but rather that I don’t know how much I should say. Surely they do not want a gushing monologue about my trip. And how can I do …

Why We Should Read Sad Books

Whenever I try to convince my daughter to read a new book, the first question she suspiciously asks me is: “Is it sad?” If I say yes, she refuses to read it. Then we have the same argument we’ve had countless times. I remind her that all of her favorite books have made her cry. She tells me that she …