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...
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...
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...
