Comments on: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

By: alison

alison — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:22:40 +0000

I changed the title of the post today when I linked back to it and for some reason in came up in my reader as new.

Odd.

Because it’s super old. It’s actually my first post!

Definitely counts Michelle!!

By: half broke horses « chino house

half broke horses « chino house — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:52:56 +0000

[…] Broke Horses is sort of a prequel to one of my very favorite books, The Glass Castle. The stories from Jeannette Walls’ grandmother’s life are enjoyable and hair-raising […]

By: panamamama

panamamama — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:23:52 +0000

We read that for book club a while back and it really haunted me too. One of those books you love/hate to me. I blogged yesterday but not on my main blog- on my book and cooking one, so guess that counts?

By: chino house

chino house — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:45:40 +0000

[…] Also, I think her oft-used phrase That would be a good trick is going to move right up in my world in the same way the phrase It’s time to do the skedaddle has forever become a part of my vernacular with friends who have also read the story of the Walls’ family. […]

By: bon anniversaire « chino house

bon anniversaire « chino house — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:02:46 +0000

[…] bon anniversaire March 15, 2008 Filed under: blogs, life — alison @ 12:00 pm Tags: blogging, blogs, my blog just turned one!, writing i started this blog one year ago. […]

By: AmandaClay

AmandaClay — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:52:25 +0000

I love it. What wonderful questions to struggle with… My favorite books are always the ones where the characters become part of my life–and stay that way. Good or bad. Both is even better. I admire you tremendously–thank you so much for starting this blog. I can’t wait to read more!

By: vanna

vanna — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:37:49 +0000

… but, of course, that is impossible… your children will have a happy childhood — but trauma (suffering) is what will grow in them the character that chooses to fight for each other against the world (or their parents) i’ve just come from my small group and we’re in the middle of allender’s book … you must go back and read again “the biblical pattern for parenting is strewn with mystery, paradox, failure, redemption, and reconciliation.” and you don’t have to create any suffering (trauma); it will visit your home uninvited… and it’s there your children will get to know God, just as we all have – that’s when they will bond with other people (including their siblings) on this journey … that’s the part that undoes me… i know what’s it taken for me to really want to know God and walk with him, what it still takes… do i want my children to experience any of that? of course not, i want them to get there without any of the suffering, brought at their own hand or by someone else…doesn’t work that way though.

I’m new at this blogging thing. hope i haven’t said too much – feels like i have — oh well, we’ll see!

By: Kelly S.

Kelly S. — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:45:46 +0000

Surely you know how precious you are! How I always enjoy these windows into your mind.

I spent yesterday with friends in NW Arkansas. What a blessing for such a sweet reprieve from mommy & wife (I wish to also find reprieve from pregnancy at times too!). I was considering on the drive how being a wife and mother ages each of us which led me to ponder why that’s so. My conclusion… because we are called to dig SO much deeper within ourselves for even the smallest of tasks. The danger is that at times we can be consumed with digging deeper and forget how to play and laugh with ease. Maturity is a scary thing at times I think!