When my wife, Anne, and I started dating three years ago, we spent quite a bit of time cooking together.  We enjoyed the challenge of a new recipe or the quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie.  I also – before Instagram became all the rage – took photos of just about everything we created in the kitchen.  Anne thought that my photos were pretty good and most folks who were kind enough to be the guinea pigs for our food creations said our food wasn’t half bad either.  So we decided to jump on the food blog train.  And boy was it fun.  We established a style, developed some of our own recipes, improved our photography, and, in the process, built up a pretty good following.

Fast forward to the present day, a marriage and two kids later (yeah, things happened quickly), and the food blog is, well, in a permanent state of idle (although we did manage a new post about a week ago – hoorah!)  Oh, and I failed to mention that we also started a “family blog” in the meantime in order to keep family and friends updated with pictures of the kids, which has pretty much dissolved into a “month in review” of our Instagram feed.

I mean, who really has the time to keep a blog updated these days?  Life is too busy, right?

With that thought in mind, I decided to start this new (yes, third) blog today.  But why?  Do I enjoy the challenge of a low probability of success?

Well, first of all, this is my blog.  I take full responsibility for its value or lameness.  I won’t guilt Anne into helping me sustain it.

So what is it about?  Well, in a word, education.  I think.  More specifically, my experience in classical Christian education.  I am currently enjoying my sixth year of teaching at the same school (although I have been mistakingly telling everyone that it is my seventh year – have I already lost track of time?) and, for whatever reason – this spring in particular – I have felt compelled to start writing down some of my thoughts, thoughts which have as of late been flowing so quickly that I have had trouble organizing (and remembering) them all.

Why the sudden compulsion for reflection?  Well, I’m still trying to discern the answer to that question.  Sure, I could just be another dude on the internet who feels like he has something to say to the world that the world should listen to.  Or maybe I just need to get some thoughts written down.  “Why not just use a journal then?” you say.  Well, I don’t know, maybe I should.  Maybe this blog won’t make it past a few posts.  Fact is: I don’t really know what I’m doing.  But I invite you to humor me until you get bored or find something better to read, and let’s see where this goes.