LwCH

The entangled roots of a large tree with red leaves on the ground. The roots point to the web of relationships that influence authorship, shape collaboration, and enrich scholarship.

A Nightmare and A Dream

A week that began with a nightmare, ended with a dream. The Nightmare On Tuesday morning, I received the call from my wife I've long dreaded—she said there was a 911 call about an active…

Christopher LongFebruary 12, 2023

Civic Life LwCH The Long Road

Mature Leadership: On Bending the Arc

Shortly after Barack Obama won the 2008 Iowa caucuses, I wrote a blog post entitled Toward a Mature Politics that began with the Kantian idea that enlightenment requires us to relinquish our self-incurred immaturity. Then,…

Christopher LongJanuary 19, 2017

Living LwCH The Long Road

Anticipation

Excitement abounds here in the Long household as preparations are made for the arrival of Santa. At 9- and 8-years old, the girls are at that prime age when Christmas is long anticipated and full…

Christopher LongDecember 24, 2013

Living LwCH The Long Road

Evening Sledding

It was dark before I got around to shoveling the walkway. The girls were excited to be outside, but I had a chore to complete. They wanted to go sledding, so they started down the…

Christopher LongDecember 8, 2013

LwCH The Long Road

DancinGirl Turns 7, Ponders Finitude

As we pulled into our driveway after running errands preparing for her Monster High birthday party, DancinGirl, who was generally excited about the day, announced that she has been thinking a lot, recently, about death.…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2012

Education LwCH The Long Road

Literacy in Bloom

DancinGirl has fallen in love with words. Actually, she has always loved to play with words, singing, rhyming, mimicking. But now her love of the verbal has exploded into literacy. She is reading voraciously; book…

Christopher LongMay 29, 2012

LwCH The Long Road

Complementarity

LITCHFIELD, SC - Vacation can be a time for moments of insight and tenderness. One such moment came this week for me at a restaurant here in South Carolina called Studio Café. (You can see…

Christopher LongDecember 30, 2011

LwCH The Long Road

For DancinGirl on Her First Day of Kindergarten

Dear DancinGirl: Do you know why I call you DancinGirl when I write about you here? It is because, from the moment I met you, now almost six years ago, you were dancing. At first,…

Christopher LongAugust 30, 2011

Image of a wave breaking in the ocean with two figures to the right, a father and a daughter. The father, in a baseball cap, is lifting the daughter over the wave as it breaks. The foam of earlier waves are in the foreground. It is a relatively overcast day.

LwCH The Long Road

Beginning in Wonder

Aristotle, of course, famously said: "For it is by way of wondering that people both now and at first began to philosophize ..." (Metaphysics, I.2, 982b13-4). Tonight, ArtGirl began to philosophize. She wondered so eloquently…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2011

LwCH The Long Road

For Hannah on her Fourth

Dear Hannah: Today is the day we have been talking about since the summer - finally, it's your birthday! Today we celebrate you and the way you have celebrated us everyday since you arrived four…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2009

Living LwCH The Long Road

Just Dancing

Here is episode 13 of Life with Chloe and Hannah. I have collected the video I took a few months ago at the Tussey Ski Area when they are dancing on the deck. I admire…

Christopher LongMay 20, 2009

LwCH The Long Road

Life with Chloe and Hannah 02 – Playing with Dolls

Here is another episode of Life with Chloe and Hannah (LwCH). It is a relatively short recording of the girls playing a typical game with their dolls, putting them to sleep and waking up again.…

Christopher LongNovember 20, 2007

LwCH The Long Road

Life with Chloe and Hannah 01 – Early Snow

I have posted Life with Chloe and Hannah, episode 01 below. It is the first of what I hope to be an ongoing collection of podcasts that capture something of the daily life of my…

Christopher LongNovember 9, 2007

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