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Reading the newspapers lately, and Sheila’s posting the other day, about the tragedy on the gulf coast reminded me of something that seemed worth relaying…. Just about a month ago, Fr. McFadden (the voice of Hoyas basketball, and the man who taught me my first formal theology) gave a pretty great homily about water. Now, …
So, I finished reading Ian McEwan’s Saturday about two weeks ago, but I haven’t had time to get down my reflections on it. Like his last book, Atonement, this is a very quiet, but very good book. Ordinary people with ordinary lives, who sometimes find themselves spinning slowly out of control. Saturday is an explicitly …
So, on Monday as I was driving back to DC from a weekend in Pittsburgh, I spent some time listening to some low-on-the-dial radio as I made my way through Western Maryland. At first I thought I was listening to an all news network, but eventually it became apparent that I was listening to an …
This has to be the best story I’ve seen in a really long time. Imagine the revolution that this stuff can make in famine situations. Fortified peanut butter. What could be better than this? Interesting how this article managed to coincide with the arrival of a solicitation for donations from Doctors Without Borders in my …
The mortgage documents are signed, copied, and on their way back to the loan officer via FedEx. I, on the otherhand, am trundling headlong into a disconcerting sea of debt five miles further into the Commonwealth of Virginia, a place that cultural critic Lisa Duggan has repeatedly referred to as the “vortex of hell”. Closing: …