Thanks to Kelly who tagged me several days ago. I suppose I first have to confess extreme procrastination. I actually thought of some good ones when Dom got tagged, but not expecting to be in the hot seat myself, I neglected to write them down. In...
I guess I got distracted. I never finished my thoughts when I left off at the end of Part I. Well, they’re gone now. Things are looking up now. I haven’t thrown up for 10 days! Though I still get very tired and occasionally have food...
This is a letter from the Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska to the priests in his diocese exhorting and encouraging them in the daily recitation of the office, but I think it speaks to anyone who prays the office. Or to anyone who is interested in...
I received in the mail today a copy of Thought and Action, the NEA higher education journal. I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. from an essay on academic freedom: An investigation of academic freedom needs to include not only examples of...
Theresa’s been telling me about a new Domenican priest at UD who gives awesome homilies. Evidently she not the only one who thinks so. He’s had such demand for copies of them that he’s created a blog and is now posting them.
I haven’t blogged on this yet. Partly because for the first couple of months I wanted to treasure the knowledge just with friends and family, not trumpet it out to the world. I can’t exactly say why that was the case, and Domenic...
Today Dom introduced me to a new podcast called Word Nerds. One of the regular features is a rude word of the day. Today’s was “troll.” They explained that “troll” is currently used to describe a person who...
Random House’s official site for Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, some of my favorite books. Interesting study questions, not that I’m likely to find many people to discuss these books with. My college buddy Claudia introduced...
“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.” -Mark Abley
In his article, “God & Bertie Wooster” Joseph Bottum, one of my favorite contemporary poets and commentator on literature, explains why Wodehouse is a necessary antidote to Nietzche and all other ailments fo the modern waste land...