- “Rekindle Joy Throughout the Year with Family Feast Days.” Radiant (22 April 2024).
- “The Introvert’s Guide to Tech Resistance.” Verily (17 April 2024).
- “Review: Permanence, Memoir, and Memory.” Current (9 April 2024).
- “On Advice for Potential Graduate Students in the Humanities.” The Arena blog at Current (3 April 2024).
- “Review: Why Aren’t Americans Having Children?” Current (19 March 2024).
- “Is It Okay to Use Grammarly?” The Arena blog at Current (14 March 2024).
- “Spontaneous Music.” Hearth & Field (6 March 2024).
- “Why Do We Valorize Busyness?” Public Discourse (27 February 2024).
- “The Good Failures of Unplugging: Seven Months Later.” The Arena blog at Current (22 February 2024).
- “The Best Lenten Sacrifices are the Realistic Ones.” Theology of Home blog (13 February 2024).
- “Signature Drop Biscuits.” Hearth & Field (1 February 2024).
- “What to Get the Kids You Know for their Birthdays.” The Arena blog at Current (1 February 2024).
- “A Catalog of Optimism from a Day of Travel.” The Arena blog at Current (25 January 2024).
- “Could Scientists Be Close to a Potential Cure for Severe Morning Sickness?’” Institute for Family Studies blog (23 January 2024).
- “We’re HIPs, and We’re So Much Cooler than DINKs.” The Arena blog at Current (13 December 2023).
- “Reads of the Year for the HIP (Harried Intellectual Parent: 2023.” The Arena blog at Current (8 December 2023).
- “What to Get the Kids You Know for Christmas.” The Arena blog at Current (6 December 2023).
- “An Outdoor Lessons and Carols for Advent.” Hearth & Field (1 December 2023).
- “Technology in the Family Home: Add before You Subtract.” Public Discourse (27 November 2023).
- “Learning to Read in 2023.” Front Porch Republic (21 November 2023).
- “Homeschooling and the Washington Post.” Current (13 November 2023).
- “‘Living As Humans in a Machine Age’” The Arena blog at Current (24 October 2023).
- PODCAST: “Out of the Gray: A Legal History Lesson on Homeschooling,” Homeschooling Talks #122, HSLDA.org (23 October 2023).
- “Stop Trailing Your Trick-or-Treaters by Car!” Let Grow (11 October 2023).
- “Seven Suggestions for Making the Most of Apple Season (Even If You Aren’t Feeling Very Crunchy).” Hearth & Field (5 October 2023).
- “Student Suffering Must Be Met with the Liberal Arts.” Roundtable contribution on higher education, Current (20 September 2023).
- “You Really Can Just Unplug: Three Months Later.” The Arena blog at Current (15 September 2023).
- “When Teaching Children History, Embrace Imagination.” Hearth & Field (7 September 2023).
- “Honoring the Seasons of Hospitality.” Theology of Home blog (6 September 2023).
- “Letter to My Freshman Self.” The Arena blog at Current (6 September 2023).
- “Remembering Brother Jerome (A Good Teacher).” The Arena blog at Current (18 August, 2023).
- “Two Key Ways to Help Moms and Newborns Thrive.’” Institute for Family Studies blog (17 August 2023).
- “Talking to Strangers.” Hearth & Field (4 August 2023).
- “Augustine and the Bullfight.” Current (26 July 2023).
- “Is Homeschooling Abusive?” The Arena blog at Current (18 July 2023).
- “Can You Really ‘Just’ Unplug?” The Arena blog at Current (14 July 2023).
- “How Can We Build Supportive Friendships When It Feels So Hard?” Radiant (6 July 2023).
- “Many Know the Night: A Lesson from Elie Wiesel.” The Arena blog at Current (8 June 2023).
- “How and Why to Take A Cookie Ramble.” Hearth & Field (2 June 2023).
- “Reconsidering Homeschooling, Part II: Challenges and Solutions.” Current (1 June 2023).
- “Reconsidering Homeschooling, Part I: Growth and Benefits.” Current (24 May 2023).
- “A.I. Doesn’t Cause Cheating. Fear Does.” Front Porch Republic (24 May 2023).
- “Sex and Womanhood: A Person-First Approach.” The Arena blog at Current (12 May 2023).
- “Is the Homeschooling Boom Here to Stay?” Institute for Family Studies blog (3 May 2023).
- “Beginning with Birth: A Review of Jennifer Banks, Natality.” Current (3 May 2023)
- “Helen & Home.” Hearth & Field (27 April 2023).
- “Beyond Self-Care: How to Love Your Toddler Self.” Wallflower (25 April 2023).
- “Ideas in progress: Dixie Dillon Lane on parenting, homeschooling, and writing while juggling.” The Arena blog at Current (21 April 2023).
- “What I Am Reading: Lessons on Marriage from Janice Holt Giles.” The Arena blog at Current (14 April 2023).
- “How Catholics Can Create More Supportive Communities.” Radiant (10 April 2023).
- “Caledonia.” Current (10 April 2023).
- “American Parenting and the Terror of Risk.” Front Porch Republic (30 March 2023).
- “Faith, Mental Health, & Medication: Sometimes Grace Comes In A Little White Pill.” Wallflower (7 March 2023).
- “What I Am Reading: Dixie Dillon Lane.” The Arena blog at Current (3 March 2023).
- “The Hidden Seasons of Grief.” Current (1 March 2023).
- “I Wish I Were A Mountain Goat: Lessons From Harpers Ferry.” Front Porch Republic (22 February 2023).
- “Will Getting Chickens Ruin My Life? Seven Questions Answered for the Curious and Concerned.” Hearth & Field (21 February 2023).
- “Arguments Against School Choice Presume We Have Options.” Merion West (3 February 2023).
- “Seven Suggestions for the Beginning Quilter (and Anyone Else Who Feels Stressed).” Hearth & Field (3 February 2023).
- “Choosing Well in the Age of FOMO.” Wallflower, (25 January 2023).
- “In Schooling as in Life, More than Enough is Too Much.” Front Porch Republic (24 January 2023).
- “Experiencing Childbirth in Light of the Resurrection.” Radiant Magazine (19 January 2023).
- “Hard Times, Landscape, and Memory.” Front Porch Republic (6 January 2023).
- “Winter Wonder.” Hearth & Field (6 January 2023).
- “5 Ways to Celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas.” Wallflower (21 December 2022).
- “A Girl, 12, Allowed to Roam in a City of 2 Million.” Let Grow (14 December 2022).
- “The Second Decade of Motherhood Comes Sooner Than You Think.” Wallflower (8 December 2022).
Don’t mind me… Just over here trying to devour all these posts while my children nap!
Hi Dixie, I loved your Helen and Home essay. Really captures that sense of belonging I think we search for all our lives. Even those of us who grew up with both parents experience this sense from time to time. You are right--it's a physical, emotional, and spiritual, etc, ache. I can't even imagine how shattering that must have been for you at 13. I'm glad you've been able to (and will continue to!) regain a measure of belonging (and broaden your understanding of it) as an adult.
My family moved a lot when I was growing up. In college I was always stumped by the, where are you from? question. Eventually, I would just say wherever I felt was home in that moment, which naturally confused people. Some people thought I was from Kansas, others, from SoCal, and others from New Jersey. LOL.