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A couple of weeks ago, I read Bret Lott’s newest novel, Ancient Highway. If you don’t know who Bret Lott is, you can read a good introduction to him here, at Jeffrey Overstreet’s site, where Jeffrey reprints a segment of a 2007 interview with Lott (author of, among other books, Jewel, the Oprah Club pick…

The discussion below is interesting – thanks for all of your responses. Again, I didn’t mean to cause offense. I can’t think of a place I’ve lived which, if it were criticized, I’d be “offended.” People live places, like certain things about them, are driven crazy by others, settle, flee and try to figure out…

I am presently working on a little book about the role of Christ in Pope Benedict’s thought.  It’s not scholarly, aimed, rather at a popular audience, and I’ll only be pulling from his writings as Pope. I will be, more than anything else, pulling from his writings as Pope with an eye simply towards helping…

So, I’m sitting here after a morning at the park, eating some leftover salad, getting ready to tackle some Ratzinger. Might as well talk about food. Moving means transition. It means adaptation. It means finding new places to buy your stuff. Not as easy as it sounds. There are, to be sure, more options down…

A little bit of book-blogging to ease myself back into this. (Actually, I have another post coming on the rest of the Pope’s visit to France…I’ll get there.) First, some interesting and unusual children’s books we’ve read recently. (By the way – and I’ve been meaning to say this for a while – if you…

As regular readers know, we moved this summer, from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Birmingham, Alabama. It’s been interesting and generally fantastic. When I meet folks down here and go through the obligatory “Yeah, we just moved from Indiana….” etc., I often get a sort of concerned look in response.  Concerned, I think, as to how…

I think I’m up for blogging again. I’ve been thinking things over – not just the blog, but writing in general. Trying to sort through things in the New Place, doing the Mom Thing of feeling responsible for everyone’s emotional-well being in times of transition, etc.  Thinking over how to balance the pleasures of this…

Today begins the 40 Days for Life campaign: prayer, fasting and presence. This movement began locally and has grown terrifically in such a short time. Here’s the website for the effort. More from Musings from a Catholic Bookstore. Marcel LeJeune from Texas A&M has a short blog post on 40 Days, with links and a…

That according to the caption of the photo here, the new Prime Minister of Japan is a Catholic. In other news coming from Asia, the situation for the Church in VIetnam is not getting any better: Goon squads went into action last night in Hanoi. About a hundred thugs raided the prayer vigil held by…

AND then came the outpouring: for weeks after, people I barely knew would come into my office, gently shut the door and burst into tears. I heard stories of single and serial miscarriages, pregnancies carried nearly to full term, stillbirths — all the lost, lost children. Grief hauled about, and nowhere to put it down.…
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