Well so, does this have an English accent? It should, but maybe it will come through stronger if I spell British — apologise, centre, colour. There! Now you’ve got it, right?
I’m in an internet cafe in London. This is the much-anticipated 2-week museum and theatre(!) tour, but it got off to a strange start, and […]

I wonder if anyone is going to compare the Christmas earthquake — the worst earthquake on earth in the last 40 years according to these reports — to the terrible forebodings of “The Day After Tomorrow.” Well, maybe, but not for awhile. For now, there’s still so much work to be done.

The reports of the […]

Well, if you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, your Gloat Meter should have gone off today. The daytime temperature here in the Kansas City area — smack dab in the middle of the country if you’re geographically-challenged — was in the single digits. If you figure for wind chill and other variables, it’s still […]

This is the Sunday of the Ancestors in the Orthodox Church. This morning, we heard the geneology of Christ read from the book of Matthew. All those names — Rahab, David, Zerubbabel, Zadok — some of whose stories are known, some of whose names are at least mentioned elsewhere, some whom we know nothing about. […]

At a Serbian fest recently, I picked up a book of St. Gregory Nazianzus’ poetry called On God and Man, and then, in the way we all have (I hope), congratulated myself on being the kind of person who picks up a book of the poetry of St. Gregory of Nazianzus and never got around […]

No wait, it’s even better than that. $65,000 for a possibly-haunted-but-probably-not cane. Since we had a good laugh about the visionary cheese sandwich that sold on ebay for $28,000, we might as well do the follow-up. And the seller is from Hobart, Indiana where I used to live. That doesn’t really have any bearing on […]

Touchstone mag features this excellent piece by the excellent Frederica Mathewes-Green entitled “Meet your Mocker” where she takes on the difficult subject about appropriate and inappropriate humor for a Christian. The whole article is a must-read, but the following graph ought to be printed out and made into a henna tattoo we can wear around:
When […]

I just finished watching a Ken Burns documentary on the Shakers. I probably should be embarrassed about spending my Saturday night that way, but what the heck. Ken Burns — who did the 11-episode about the Civil War in 1990 — could make a good documentary about the history of Gruyere cheese, and all I […]

I apologize for not keeping up with my blogging more these days. I have been doing a lot of my gift-buying online, and having the time of my life.
Last Christmas, money was (in the words of the old 80’s song) too tight to mention, so we tried to be brave little soldiers with bright, shiny […]

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