Back to Oxford, the City of Dreaming Spires

Regular readers of this column know I’m a frequent traveler to England. My wife’s brothers live near Portsmouth, and since 2016, we’ve made several trips to visit them—either all of us together, or my wife on her own or with a couple of our kids, or just me, or me with our oldest son.Along the way, I’ve sought to incorporate elements of spiritual pilgrimage into these trips, whether through a family lunch at the Eagle and Child in honor of the Inklings, or a birthday spent at C