Greg excels at getting me unusual books for Christmas, and so this year I find myself with a fine collection of books on Orthodox history, thought and theology. Only one from Frederica is recent, the others are all old, and three are from the 1800’s. You’ve got to love the language and the pacing of […]

Don’t you just love the day after Christmas?

I’m sitting here wearing a stupid baseball hat, since that’s the only way I’ve figured out to keep the stark winter light out of my eyes while I sit in my office. But to ameliorate my feelings of how dumb I look, I’m conducting scientific research to determine […]

Today in Bethlehem hear I
Sweet angel voices singing:
All glory be to God on high,
Who peace on earth is bringing.
The Virgin holdeth more
Than highest heaven most holy;
Light shines on what was dark before,
And lifteth up the lowly.
God will that peace shall be on earth
And holy exultation,
Sweet Babe, I greet Thy spotless birth
And wondrous incarnation.
Today in Bethlehem […]

Grownups playing Santa for grownups. I assume it’s been going on in other cities as well, but Kansas City has an anonymous guy who goes around the worst neighborhoods giving out $100 bills (story here).

And in the past few years, he’s picked up some helpers who contibute as well:
Secret Santa, who arrived in Kansas City […]

Ahhhhh.
The last trip to the post office happened twenty minutes ago, and now I’m upstairs with my shoes off and a cup of “Christmas Breakfast” tea next to me. As I said before, I loved all the extra things I did this Advent, but in the last day or so, it has just come down […]

Okay, hopefully we all have more important things on our minds these days, but who’s sillier — the Bay Area lawyer is suing to get those little silver balls used for holiday cake and cookie decoration (called “dragees,” apparently) banned because he says they’re toxic, or the people newly deprived of dragees who say things […]

You know, I’m a simple woman with simple needs. Can someone just tell me once and for all if I’m supposed to get mad over bogus PC expressions like “Happy holidays” and “Season’s greetings” or not?

Things like this (via Orthodixie) try to tell us to be good with, y’know, whatever, and not to let skunks […]

Greg told me yesterday that King Kong has been falling off sharply at the box office, and my reaction was something like “Yippee!”
I don’t know why exactly. I have nothing against giant ape movies per se, and when I finally remembered who Peter Jackson was, I was willing to buy into some of the mega-hype […]

It started snowing again, so it was time to head for the market and make sure that I had everything to make garlic toast. This seems to be my coping mechanism, or else it’s just a Pavlovian response, since I made it the last time it snowed. But in any case, I got garlic toast […]

Greg is away on business again for the next day or so, so it’s a good time to recall what I read a few days ago
When a couple are united, even if the husband is abroad on a journey, distance ought not to diminish the joy of their love. Near or far, it is always […]