The Commonplace
Tsh Oxenreider, Tatum Oxenreider, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Dixie Dillon LaneEssays on places, books, & growing up — helping you 'be joyful though you have considered all the facts.'
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 1011 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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A Boarding School & a Suit of Armor
Favorite Drink guest Faith Moore is back! In this chat she shares with Tsh two more books that have shaped her life, along with two formative places—one from childhood and one from more recent… as a New Yorker who also spent her childhood i...
Book Chat: November '26 📚
PLUS some bonus gratitude...
Around here we normally end our months with gratitude and start our months with books, but because last week was emotionally and calendar-ily full around here (more on this in my comment), I wasn’t able to post...
5 Quick Things #432 👻
Believe it or not, Hallowtide this weekend also means Advent is exactly one month from yesterday... What? 🤯 It always, always sneaks up on me (especially because it’s usually the Sunday right after American Thanksgiving, as it does again t...
Hallowtide is a Christian Feast 🎃
Halloween, by Grandma Moses (1955) #
I’ve long enjoyed Halloween (even though I’m a bonafide hesitant adult dresser-upper, for whatever reason). I love the autumnal air; in Central Texas this is the time of year it finally, legitimately fe...
5 Quick Things #431 🥞
What’s been more surprising since our middle son jaunted off to college this fall hasn’t been his absence (though I miss him terribly)—it’s been the reality of our youngest son being the only one remaining. As the lone family member with ex...
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Reminding us all what’s still beautiful, good, & true (even when it’s hard to see). Author, podcaster, pilgrimage guide, & teacher. Catholic convert. Indifferent to the zeitgeist. Yep, it's spelled correctly.
I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.
Historian, homeschooling mom, associate editor at Hearth & Field, contributing editor at Front Porch Republic. Author of "Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstream" (Eerdmans, 2026).
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