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Me: I saw Mrs. Miller today after Mass. Katie: What did you talk about? Me: Our ungrateful daughters. (Pause. Double Pause.) Katie: (tentatively) Really? Me: (shrug) Me: How was school? Katie: It was great. I have the best lunch table ever. There’s Mona and Chloe and Logan and Billy and… Me: How were were your…

Fr. Z has a very interesting discussion going. Actually, it’s not a discussion, it’s more of a “What Did You Hear” type thread in which he has invted people who did not experience the Extraordinary Rite/Classical/Tridentine/ Mass growing up to talk about their introduction to that particular rite and their reactions. It is one of…

Worst first day of school ever. Weather-wise, that is. Emotionally, everyone was up for it, but..oh the rain! I had the best of intentions – I wanted to take my camera to Joseph’s school and snap him in front of his classroom because this is the first year he’s worn a uniform, and oh, he…

I have a new email – the spam situation at Yahoo is just getting untenable. I am starting to suspect that they are purposefully loose with the controls to convince you to go to a paid account. No matter how many messages I mark as spam, I still get inundated in the regular inbox every…

I am finally getting around to working on the “links” page – tab up above. It has most everything that was on the other blog, and I’m going to be adding blogs. They’re in no particular order, but just in case you happened to use the links on my other blogroll – it’s there now.

No, this novel by John Williams is not about reefer madness in the Gilded Age, no matter what the title and cover art may tempt you into thinking. It’s of one of my favorite genres, the academic novel… …..(favorites being David Lodge’s pertinent books,  Michael Malone’s Foolscap, and Russo’s Straight Man.  Speaking of Russo…one more month! Funny…my local…

In which the authoress begins to plow through some of her recent reading, in hopes that some might benefit. I’ve been reading mostly fiction this summer (the Gothic Wars book is in process – I need to get it back to the library, so maybe I’ll knock that off this weekend.), just sort of drifting…

In today’s WaPo, Jonathan Yardley reconsiders J.F. Powers’ Morte d’Urban, the novel about a priest that won the National Book Award in 1963. The Moviegoer had won in 1962. Ah, those were the days. Yardley’s take: Thus it’s both revealing and ironic that one of the few genuinely good American novels about business isn’t about…

Our public intellectuals. Our greats. What would we do without them? Ask the child of one of them. He knows. No photograph of him has ever been published, but those who know Daniel Miller say that he resembles his father. Some say it’s the nose, others the mischievous glimmer in the eyes when he smiles,…

Yesterday evening, the Mass in the Extraordinary Form (is that right?…..) was celebrated in St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral in Burlington Vermont. Celebrated by Burlington Bishop Salvatore Matano.  The church was apparently packed – as you can see from the video, and you might want to take a look a the television news report  here. Kudos for reporter…
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