Since I moved my blog to Wordpress on October 5, 2008 I never dreamed of 500.000 hits or page views. In this day of YouTube videos getting a million hits in a day or an hour, this half million in three years eight months, an average of 300 hits a day with 2,900 in one day in 2010, does not seem like much in the virtual scheme of things. Yet it provides me with a motive of thanksgiving for the Internet and the gift of communication between God's people the world over and who knows? Maybe the … [Read more...]
My 2010 blog on WordPress in review
January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Although I slowed down on posting from October on (due to surgery and other issues), I was pleased to receive this information from WordPress.com. I hope to begin posting soon again! Blessings for 2011! The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about … [Read more...]
Urban Mystic at the Crossroads
May 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The worst riots in urban U.S. history, or civil unrest as some prefer to call them, erupted on April 29, 1992, a reaction to the acquittal of four white Los Angeles policemen for using excessive force in apprehending a black motorist, Rodney King. Racism and brutality, the lack of opportunities, poverty, historical and current official negligence on the part of the city governance and police, and reverse racism, all these socially flammable realities contributed to the 1992 Los Angeles … [Read more...]
Confronting the duck! Check out my new blog
September 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Ever since I saw Norah Ephron's film Julie & Julia a few weeks ago I have wanted to write about Julia child's advice: "...confront the duck!" So I decided to start a new blog: Confronting the Duck I am not sure how often I will be able to post to this blog, but I hope it will be often and about what Raissa Maritain called "adventures in grace" - my own or wherever I find it: in people, stories, movies, television. Check in every once in a while and share some of your adventures, … [Read more...]
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