June 2012
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The faults of character which sometimes created people's difficulties were far less repellent to Caryll than those faults which make for success in this world. –from Maisie Ward's biography of Carryl Houselander I feel exactly the same way. Yet I have to consider whether there is a bit of envy in it.
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Weekend Music 1960. They were so great. One of my earliest musical memories is hearing “Wake Up, Little Susie” on the radio. Unless my memory is playing tricks on me it was either in my maternal grandfather’s cabinet-making shop or in his car which was parked in front of the shop. The song came out…
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From David French at National Review Online
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Perhaps you've read or heard about this Atlantic piece, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All". It's the cover story of the most recent issue of the magazine, which arrived at our house a couple of weeks ago. I haven't read it yet, but apparently it's aroused quite a controversy, as this topic usually does–"this topic" being…
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Or are most bloggers female now, or what? As you can see from the URL, TypePad is where this blog is hosted. They recently redesigned their own web site. The new look struck me as feminine, but I didn't really give that any thought until I had logged in to it a number of times…
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Progressive Ironies The past month or so has seen the deaths of two men associated with progressive Catholicism in this area. One was a priest, one was a deacon. I had a slight personal acquaintance with both of them, a bit more so with the deacon, and on the basis of that and of their…
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“Tropical Storm Debby Threatens Louisiana, Florida” (This was supposed to be a link to a CNN story, but first I had the wrong URL in there, and then they changed the headline.)
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Weekend Music I think I'll continue in the vein of last week's post: love songs from the early '60s or so, which is to say, my puppy love years. This song was a follow-up to Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" and is an imitation, musically, including pretty much the same bass riff. I had…
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One never has time to read everything on the web that looks interesting. Well, that's almost a pointless thing to say, like observing that you can't drink all the water in a river. Anyway, one thing that I've thought looked pretty interesting but haven't ever read very much is a blog called Unequally Yoked, which Eve…
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Really out there. Somewhat awe-inspiring. And there's this to look forward to.
Light On Dark Water 