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March 2014

March 08, 2014

Review: Bugsy Malone

This review was first posted in April of 2004, on my old blog. I've made...

March 07, 2014

App o’ the Morning: Random Sheet Music

So I got a tin whistle tutorial by noted Irish whistle player Mary Bergin, so...

March 06, 2014

Community: The Fourth Pillar

The fourth pillar of Dominican life is community; and you can read all about it...

March 06, 2014

The Rat Pushes the Button

Leah Libresco has a post about monitoring her "addictions" during Lent: the activities that seem...

March 06, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Suspenders with Tails

That’s one of the fine features of tailing; wherever the subject leads you, you will...

March 05, 2014

Lent Begins with Ice, not Fire

First of all, for those who came here expecting a writing post: the scenes, they...

March 04, 2014

Review: Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers

In Gaudy Night, the penultimate Peter Wimsey novel, Sayers returns her attention to Lord Peter's...

March 03, 2014

Animated Shorts of Irish Folk Songs

Joseph Susanka has the scoop on a series of animated shorts, made in Ireland, to...

March 03, 2014

God, Invisible and Inaudible

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about discipleship and catechesis; and a...

March 02, 2014

Dominicans and Jesuits Together, in Charitable Disputation

Melanie Bettinelli has put together two posts about maintaining a charitable disposition while arguing with...

March 02, 2014

On Wuthering Heights

Over the years I’ve had friends who believed in the healing power of crystals, a...

March 02, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Light of Faith

I've finished my series on "Bootstrapping the Interior Life" for the time being; and as...

March 01, 2014

The Compassion of Telling the Truth

This post first appeared in slightly different form in April of 2004. Since then, the...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

The Leaving of Liverpool

"The Leaving of Liverpool" is one of the "Irish" tunes I've been listening to quite...

February 27, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Zeal and Resolve

Carrot stared straight ahead of him with the glistening air of one busting with duty...

February 26, 2014

Writing the Scene

I've got a character, John St. Cloude, captain of the freezer ship Our Lady of...

February 25, 2014

UPDATED: I’m a Catholic Techie!

Says so. Right here. Every week Sarah Reinhard does a Catholic Techie interview at CatholicMom.com,...

February 25, 2014

Review: The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion

Don Tillman, hero of Graeme Simsion's novel The Rosie Project, is a professor of genetics...

February 24, 2014

What’s Your Conception of God?

It's hard to discuss things fruitfully when you don't know what you're talking about. I'm...

February 23, 2014

Persevering in Prayer

One of the hardest things to do in the interior life is to persevere: to...

February 22, 2014

On Starting a Blog War

Sarah Hoyt has some interesting remarks on how to conduct yourself in a blog war...most...

February 22, 2014

Review: On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee

This was first posted in March of 2004. As I've hinted upon occasion, our favorite...

February 21, 2014

App o’ the Morning: The Craic

The Irish Gaelic word "craic" is an odd bird. Pronounced "crack", it means "news, gossip,...

February 20, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Ad Hoc Repairs

It was less the antique feel— the red and gold lacquer, or the translucent panels...

February 19, 2014

No Stupid Questions, No Wrong Answers

Wednesday is usually fiction day around here, but President's Day weekend threw off my schedule;...

February 18, 2014

Why Not Fiction?

Kelly Sedinger has some pertinent commentary on my last week's post "Why Write Fiction", which...

February 18, 2014

Review: The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers

The next of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey mysteries is The Nine Tailors, which I enjoyed...

February 17, 2014

Review: Two Serpents Rise, by Max Gladstone

Two Serpents Rise is the second book in Gladstone's "Craft Sequence", following upon Three Parts...

February 16, 2014

Dryness: When God Seems Far Away

The interior life is just like anything else that you begin with excitement and enthusiasm:...

February 15, 2014

The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis on Natural Law

If you're like me, you've participated in dozens if not hundreds of bull-sessions, electronic or...

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