Some Background My quixotic quest in recent years has been to find a good book of Bible stories for kids. I’ve always loved children’s books, but I discovered that there is a real lack of a good Catholic children’s Bible when I was...
Some good reviews out there. A new one at The Shrine of the Holy Whapping… I love those guys. I started to post a comment and then realized it was becoming a blog entry, so cut it short. Here it is: My impression, after reading many reviews of...
Last night I dreamed that I’d had the baby, a little girl who was inexplicably being called Melanie. There was a big family reunion and my aunts and uncles were all there. FOr some reason the baby had been taken from me at birth and I was...
I’ve posted my first informal book review over at Dom’s site. He keeps getting sent these books for review which he never finds time to read. I pick them up and do so and then he yells at me that I owe him a review. So at last I’ve...
I expected to be disappointed in any movie based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe simply because anyone else’s vision wouldn’t match with mine. My parents might be able to tell you when I first entered the magical world of Narnia...
This weekend I realized I owned no Christmas music, so I downloaded a couple of albums from iTunes… the kind of music I remember my mother playing on the stereo at Christmas, the kind I heard on Christmas eve in the crowded church while...
…listening to iTunes, U2 has been popular the last two days. I’m reminded of a conversation with Theresa. She told me about driving late at night, listening to U2’s “All I Want Is You” and suddenly hearing it as a song...
The baby at 16 weeks. You can make out the head at the bottom of the image, the face looking up. The ultrasound tech was annoyed because our stubborn offspring refused to move from this awkward head-down position to give her a better view. (Dom said...
I realized last week that only one of my skirts now fits. (It isn’t a maternity skirt at all but it has a stretchy waistband and a full cut. I’ve worn this same skirt to Sunday mass for three weeks now. So I decided this week to go...
After 9/11 by Charles Martin. I don’t think I’m ready to comment on this, except to say it’s really powerful and manages to avoid all the schmaltz I would fear from a treatment of this subject. It is daring and ambitious and I...