If you’re a book person, you know that what the people of New Orleans need right now is . . . libraries. Read a story of New Orleans, churches, and libraries by Joe KcKeever.

Here’s a different kind of a story of Elizabethan poetic dialogue between Sir Walter Raleigh and Christopher Marlowe, thanks to Amanda at Wittingshire.

Contributors to National Review Online (NRO) discuss the “most conservative love stories.” Some of the candidates are: Levin and Kitty, Elizabeth and Darcy (natch!), Newland Archer and Countess Olenska, or the lovers in Song of Solomon. What do you think is the most conservative love story ever told?

Melissa Wiley on the quiet joy of having a child who is not physically perfect.

AJ at Bittersweet Life asks some questions about causality. It’s interesting. I noticed long ago that when children ask “why” and “why” again and then “why” again, the only ultimate answer is “because God made it that way.” So, how do unbelievers answer the Why Question?

First Carnival of Children’s Literature at Melissa Wiley’s Here in the Bonny Glen.
The Second Carnival of Children’s Literature will be held at Chicken Spaghetti on March 5. Submissions are solicited now through March 3rd.
Carnival of UnSchooling at ATypical Homeschool.