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Katie and Joseph saw this yesterday. They both liked it. I confess to little interest – I read the books when I was twelve, and again to my older children ages ago (Joseph is just about ready to start on his own, perhaps), and the whole Lewis/Tolkein fictional opus has never had any pull on me.…

Got some work to do – that was actually due on Wednesday. Oops. One of my older sons is here visiting as well, plus all that end of the year stuff that parents of school-age children are so fond of. Two piano recitals in two different parts of town within an hour of each other…

Every day I have reported the story of the Sichuan earthquake it has seemed impossible to imagine things getting worse. Hanwang, with its bodies lying everywhere, was grotesque. Dujiangyan, where hundreds of teenagers were dragged out dead from the mud, was nightmarish. But every day is worse than the next. No one knows what horrors…

It seems every time I turn around – or sit down at the computer – Pope Benedict has come out with another interesting homily, address or somesuch. I’m going to try to look at what he’s been saying over the past couple of weeks, starting with what he’s had to say about life. (Most of…
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