I have a love/hate relationship with the newspaper.On the one hand, I am fond of the comics and the movie reviews. On the other, I greatly dislike getting distracted by the gunk. Every day there is some new version of the mortal sins being committed: this man broke into a college dorm and did unprintable things; this woman had a nervous breakdown … [Read more...]
Should we be watching Oprah?
Prologue: Back when I was a mom-of-one and living far from my family in Boston, I fell in love with the Oprah Winfrey show. Every day at 3:00 p.m., I’d settle in while Joe was napping (and even when he wasn’t) and I would prepare to be inspired. I joined her book club and dreamed that she’d pick me to discuss it. I carefully considered her … [Read more...]
McCain’s Pick
So where were you yesterday when you found out that McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate?I was upstairs doing mom-type things—folding laundry, making my bed, tidying up our classroom. My husband phoned to say the word was out—and he gave me the name of a woman (a woman?) I’d never heard of.Surprise! It wasn’t—as per the local … [Read more...]
Curls are Back
To the tremendous delight of my daughters last night, they realized that:1. Not only would they have curls on the morrow;2. They also had matching accessories!I did not plan that.And now, (because I know that many of you are singing the song already), I give you the following snippet of gone-but-not-forgotten Americana:My nephew used to get these … [Read more...]
The New Formality?
My friend, Erin, has written a post around a comment I left at her blog this afternoon. I’m taking the bait because it is a subject that much intrigues me—that of names (not again!) and titles and the ways in which our children address grown-ups.Erin says:“Generally, the world suffers from too little, not too much, civility. If I could go back and … [Read more...]
Keeping the Faith (Part II)
You gotta have a good bit of faith to stay put during your son’s Tuesday night baseball game (as in all of its innings, in the cold) when you know that the American Idol finals are being televised at that very moment.You have to trust that your friend across town is going to TiVo tonight’s show because doesn’t her son play baseball also? Does he … [Read more...]
In which I express a liturgical opinion.
Or two. I thought that the Papal Mass this morning was a bit PC.And the music? Not at all my cup of tea.What are your thoughts?Updated on Friday Morning to Add: For an article that takes a more scholarly look at the Papal Mass in Washington, see Jeffrey Tucker’s “Music for the D.C. Mass: The End of an Era, and the Beginning of Something New” from … [Read more...]
On the Pursuit of Happiness and the Cleverness of McDonald’s Marketing
Every Wednesday afternoon we have a choice. The older three have choir for an hour at our church, and that leaves just the littles and me. Sometimes we run errands, sometimes we hang out in the van outside the church, and sometimes we visit the McDonald’s playland down the road.My girls clamor for the third option, not surprisingly, every single … [Read more...]
Oscar’s Ironies
Every year it’s the same old thing.I stay up way too late watching the Academy Awards, and groggily I rise the next morning, with pasty eyelids and weary steps and a slight, nauseous feeling of “Why did I do it?”I’m hung-over, is what it is. Too much TV. Too much pomp and nonsense.Yet I will do it all again next year.You may or may not know this … [Read more...]
On the 35th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
A Prayer for Lifeby Pope John Paul IIO Mary, bright dawn of the new world,Mother of the living,to you do we entrust the cause of life:Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbersof babies to be born,of the poor whose lives are made difficult,of men and women who are victims of brutal violence,of the elderly and the sick killedby indifference or out … [Read more...]
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