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…of the Pope’s annual year-end address to the Roman Curia? The one that has inspired many headlines? (The Vatican is usually especially slow about translating this one) Go to the Papa Ratzinger Forum, this page, and scroll down. Teresa Benedetta has done the work: I would invite you to read the whole thing, and to…

Vesuvius. A quick bookblog – last week I read The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard, who is one of the busiest classicists around, considering it seems as if it was only a few months ago I heard her interviewed on a BBC radio program about her book on the Roman…

So I went outside this morning to start clearing fallen branches. “It’s cold,” I idly thought, deciding  it was about 20 degrees. Got in the car to head out to Target, a bagel and Internet, and saw that, now it was more like 0. Huh. It was 65 degrees in Bham when I left yesterday…

Michael and the Boyz are enjoying a little Florida jaunt while Katie and I have come to a far different place: We rose at 4:30am, dashed up 65 then 69,  were in town by 3pm, turned on the heat and the water in the house (the realtor had fallen down on the promise to do…
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