We’ve gotten to that part of October. The sky outside is postcard blue, and the air outside feels so cold and clean you wish you could bathe in it. But I’m still glad I’m not in the high school marching band that I hear. Apparently, they have to practice the walking-and-chewing-gum thing — marching and […]

Just some short movies to waste a little time on:

A drunken bear. (Starts with a commercial. Sorry.)
An anchorman under attack
Thoughtful airplane safety instructions for the hearing-impaired
Lip-synching slugs
What people will do to get into Guiness (the book, not the beer)
Cats going up, down and around — sort of an oldie but a goodie
Tyson the bulldog

At one time I thought about having a separate category just for the culture sightings that make you think that surely the world’s about to end soon. I was going to name it “The moving walkway is ending” in honor of something you hear a lot in airports — so much, in fact, that it […]

We’ve got a spot of Indian summer going on now. The temperatures are back in the mid-90’s, and the air conditioning has been humming along all day. I’ve always been kindly disposed toward the idea of Indian summer, but I think that was just because it sounded nice. Or maybe I was just recalling that […]

I just finished reading “Keeper of the Light: St. Macrina the Elder, Grandmother of Saints” by Bev Cooke about that most interesting woman, St. Macrina the Elder.
This is a person we’d all like to invite over for dinner. Born around 270, her spiritual father was St. Gregory the Wonderworker, her granddaughters were St. Macrina […]