Lara Neri
What is the value in abstract art?
This week I took my 7th and 8th grade art students to visit the Modern art museum in Fort Worth. There were a lot of comments such as:...
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Beauty is the battlefield where God and the Devil war for the soul of man. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Lara Neri
- Sep 12, 2019
- 4 min
Put those teenagers out to pasture
For some months now, I have been consumed with starting this little school, Saint Anthonys' Academy. It is a place I first conceived of...
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Lara Neri
- Sep 5, 2019
- 6 min
Chasing the White Whale
When I was at university there was a professor, Dr. Curtsinger, who was obsessed with Moby Dick. I never took any classes with him, but...
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Lara Neri
- Aug 29, 2019
- 3 min
Death & Decapitation
I really don’t like thinking about death, but I think about it a lot. It is brought to the forefront of my thoughts by tragic events...
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Lara Neri
- Aug 10, 2019
- 2 min
3 reasons to visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Despite many trips to Washington DC, I had never been to the Smithsonian American Art Museum until this summer. It is not one of the...
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Lara Neri
- Aug 2, 2019
- 7 min
top 10 audible listens for a family road trip
In our family, we listen to audiobooks constantly - in the car, playing legos, cooking, cleaning, getting ready to go to sleep. We have...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 25, 2019
- 1 min
my top three favorite museums in London
The British Museum - full of brilliant historical art and artifacts - like the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, and the colossal...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 19, 2019
- 6 min
Whilst Residing at the Palace Court Hotel
or "Part Two of My First European Adventure" In the summer of 1995, I made my first trek across Europe. I began by touring England and...
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Lara Neri
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
My First European Adventure: Part One
This month twenty four years ago, in the summer of 1995, I made my first trek across Europe. I began by touring England and Scotland...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 27, 2019
- 6 min
Not Arrested in Italy
In the fall of 1995, I traveled to Italy to study for the semester at the University of Dallas Rome campus, located just outside of Rome...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 20, 2019
- 5 min
Why You Should Travel
This week I met with my kids’ therapist for a parent consultation and our summer travels came up. I mentioned that, even though change in...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 13, 2019
- 5 min
My favorite Russian Murderer
My husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s...
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Lara Neri
- Jun 6, 2019
- 4 min
Grandmother
Growing up my I thought of my grandmother as grouchy and unpleasant. I never looked forward to visiting her and she, in turn, seemed...
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Lara Neri
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
Ascending Hero Mountain
When I taught English in China, we were in a filthy, rat-infested village, crawling with giant cockroaches and shrouded in a pervasive...
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Lara Neri
- May 22, 2019
- 4 min
You've got to play just to make it today
As a child, I created a notebook with color-coded pages on which I had done drawings of each outfit I owned to accompany my color-coded...
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Lara Neri
- May 15, 2019
- 4 min
Give Sorrow Words: the Healing Power of Theater
Over the past 10 years my husband and I have done quite a bit of reading, taking classes, attending conferences, and learning from...
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Lara Neri
- May 9, 2019
- 4 min
Where is that lacrosse team?
When I was a graduate student in literature, I came across two books that had a formative effect on my philosophy of education: John...
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Lara Neri
- May 2, 2019
- 4 min
Crowning the Warrior Queen
On my journey into the Catholic Church, Mary was a real problem for me for a while. Even after I realized that Catholics do not worship...
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Lara Neri
- Apr 23, 2019
- 3 min
I'm just a girl
This coming Sunday is Thomas Sunday. I have always liked this Apostle, as I really relate to him, at least as far as struggling with...
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Lara Neri
- Apr 19, 2019
- 6 min
By death He trampled death
I love Easter so much that it is hard to write about it. I cry thinking about it. It is the most full of true joy, the most expressive of...
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