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November 2017

November 25, 2017

Book Notes: Discipline to Whimsy

This year I have desperately tried to effect a recovery of reading. I know I...

November 04, 2017

Going Inside: Cultural Notes from ‘Home’

This is the most brilliant article of the day. Yes and Amen. It's really long...

October 2017

October 21, 2017

Book Notes: Its Not That Terrible A Time

[These aren't the books I'm reading right now.] Have wasted the morning reading funny articles...

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Three Things for Thursday

A Happy and Blessed Rosh Hashanah to all those celebrating today. Is that the word?...

September 05, 2017

The Proper Way To Organize Your Books

You might think I sound crazy but a friend said it better. 'If he reads...

September 02, 2017

Book and House Notes: OCD Edition

Five years ago, if you had told me that I would be upset about a...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Is It Ok To Tear Pages Out Of Books?

I have an hour and a half left to endure in the Life Changing Magic...

August 21, 2017

Monday on the Eclipocalypse Podcast and Links

Good Morning. Hope you all have your glasses at the ready. We don't have any....

August 19, 2017

Book and Porch Notes

Matt went out on his own and picked a color of paint for the porch...

August 14, 2017

A Podcast for your Monday

Good morning. We've done up a nice little podcast for you. Well, actually it's a...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

Monday on the Friendly Recriminations Podcast and Links

Good Afternoon. I mean, it's still morning, but by the time I post this it...

July 08, 2017

Trees and Water…Are More Precious Than Gold

I've started a little collection for myself of ridiculous things people say in complete seriousness...

June 2017

June 24, 2017

Staggering off the Broad Road of the Internet

Yesterday I said I was going to Read Moar Books. When asked which books I...

June 17, 2017

Book and Home Notes

I oughta be up and buzzing around, doing all the things because it's Saturday. But...

June 08, 2017

An Infinite Line of Humanity Uncomfortable With Itself

In the spirit of inhabiting the spirit of the age I thought I might go...

June 01, 2017

Gay Vultures, Kathy Griffin, and the Narrow Way

I guess I don't mind Evil that much if it's expressed in an interesting way.

May 2017

May 23, 2017

Praying through the Rubble of Wickedness

Let the record show that while I was kneeling on the floor of Barnes and...

May 16, 2017

The Buffoonification of Sex and Gender

As usual, it's the convergence of insanity that I find so arresting that I can't...

May 15, 2017

Airport Run Podcast and Links

We have an extra special treat this morning. The Preventing Grace Podcast has been elevated...

May 10, 2017

Anglican Books You Have To Have

Think I've forgotten how to blog. Was sure this was going to happen when I...

May 04, 2017

Book Notes: Reading With Children

In my hide bound way I was really wanting to post this on Saturday, which...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

I Doubt It’s About Thomas

This morning I am So Honored and Thrilled to be able to have the Rev....

April 21, 2017

7 Thrilling Takes

I don't really deserve Quick Takes after a lame-o week of blogging, but I'm going...

April 08, 2017

Book Notes: A Wodehouse Diagnostic Quiz

Someone asked a very reasonable question some indeterminate time ago which I neglected to answer...

April 01, 2017

The Moral of the Story

The rain turned to snow just now and there's some kind bird shrieking outside my...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

The Defining Literary Work of the Age

So I guess Disney remade Beauty and the Beast. The story, from what I can...

March 18, 2017

Notes on Weakness and Failure

There was a brilliant rosy sunrise, which I saw because, you know, the daylight has...

March 04, 2017

House and Booked Notes

Turns out cleaning the house from top to bottom was of useful long term benefit...

February 2017

February 18, 2017

School, Book and Bedroom Notes

This is the first week since I succumbed to this ghastly thyroid problem six weeks...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Book and Hospital Notes

Friday has come to mean that I don't get to spend a nice evening with...