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21 illustrations
Maria Gonzalez never planned to be a theologian. She worked the early shift at a bakery in San Antonio, and by the time her three...
In a small house on Maple Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan, there is a spot on the linoleum where the finish has worn thin. Margaret...
Margaret Chen never sat her children down for formal devotions. She tried once, in 1987, with a flannel board and a lesson plan she'd photocopied...
In 1987, a furniture maker named Thomas Gentry ran a small workshop in Asheville, North Carolina. His twelve-year-old son, David, wanted to build a birdhouse....
In 2019, a researcher at the University of Georgia asked forty fathers to wear small audio recorders during evening hours at home. The results startled...
When Margaret Chen moved into her first house in Boise in 1987, she spent an entire Saturday cleaning the picture window in the living room...
Every Tuesday night for eleven years, Rosa Gutierrez sat at her kitchen table in San Antonio with flour on her apron and a Bible open...
Martin Okafor had been building a cedar hope chest for his daughter Amara's sixteenth birthday — and he'd finally agreed to let her help sand...
In a small house on Maple Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan, there is a spot in front of the kitchen sink where the linoleum has...
Martin Alvarez kept a workbench in his garage on Maple Drive in Topeka, and every Saturday morning his daughter Sofia would find him there —...
In the orchards outside Yakima, Washington, growers practice something called "training" young apple trees. During the first two years, while the wood is still green...
In postwar Japan, violin teacher Shinichi Suzuki noticed something about how toddlers learn to speak. No parent sits a two-year-old down with flash cards and...
Tom Pritchard kept a vegetable garden behind his house in Muncie, Indiana, for thirty-seven years. Straight rows, clean furrows, everything measured with string and stakes....
Maria Gonzalez grew up in a small apartment in El Paso where her abuela spoke only Spanish. No one ever sat Maria down for a...
In 1964, a Japanese horticulturist named Masahiko Kimura began training a juniper sapling using the ancient art of bonsai. He did not force the tree...
In 1987, a retired schoolteacher named Helen Rosario planted a Japanese maple in the front yard of her rented duplex in Sacramento. Her landlord told...
Every Saturday morning, Rosa Gutierrez made tortillas with her daughters in their small kitchen in El Paso. She never announced it as a lesson. There...
In 1987, a linguistics professor at UCLA studied how children of Korean immigrants learned their parents' language. She expected to find that formal Saturday language...
In the hill country outside Asheville, North Carolina, a furniture maker named Harold Rigsby spent forty-three years bending white oak into Windsor chairs. His workshop...
Maria Gonzalez never set aside a formal time for family devotions. She tried once — bought a curriculum, printed schedules, laminated a chart for the...
For eleven years, Marco Salinas drove his three children to Westfield Elementary in a dented silver Corolla that smelled like coffee and pine air freshener....