A Lenten antidote
Before Lent the requisite lists of Things To Give Up made the rounds on my favourite blogs. I always read those lists, if only to spark my own imagination into coming... Read more.
Searching for God in a shallow grave
A while back I attended a funeral for a non-practicing Catholic. A spiritual-but-not-religious person led a short, non-denominational service replete with twangy... Read more.
Reed of God
Fanny Price, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, makes a striking comment one evening while waiting for a carriage. She says the time between dinner and... Read more.
To Cohabit or Not To Cohabit
At the close of a year online magazines will often post lists of Hollywood’s best and brightest who have married, divorced, reproduced, dated, or broken up over... Read more.
Christmas 1856-style
Ever seen American Girl dolls? The dolls are based on characters from different time periods and come with long, detailed stories about where they are from and what... Read more.
O antiphon, O antiphon..
These last few days before Christmas bring all kinds of crazy out of the woodwork, don’t they? It really is ironic how rude and insensitive shoppers can be—ripping... Read more.
Why I blog and why you should too
Computer technology, social media and its users have been stigmatized and blamed for much of the world’s problems. Everything from illiteracy to a decrease in... Read more.
Can a woman be confident AND vulnerable?
The other day, one of our students sent me an article. While I nearly poked my eyes out over the vulgarity of the writing, the article itself contained some valuable... Read more.
Of Blood and Guts and Ancient Romans
When I hear a screaming child in a department store, I try not to draw attention to the commotion. Kids are kids. They scream, they cry, they laugh—whether it... Read more.
Should Women be Educated?
The topic of women’s education has been making the social media rounds and I’m sure more than a few feminists have flown into fits of rage because of it. The... Read more.