Our babysitter sent this picture to me today. She took it while she was walking the boys to the park this morning. Apparently they sat like that the whole mile walk to the playground. I’ve been picking up extra work this year, and as a result we’re able to have a babysitter take care of the kids for a few hours each week while I work. I was looking forward to this enormously over the summer. I kept saying to... Read more
No, listen. Every winter, 98% of you are shivering your derriers off while you shovel your cars out of acres of snow in your driveways and pray they start so you can make it to the store to buy more kerosene and snow-wolf-killing-broadswords, or something. Clearly, I don’t live in a northern climate. I live in a the nastiest approximation the continental US has to a tropical climate. And every year, you want to murder me with your broadswords because... Read more
Go vote, like I did. You won’t regret it. Read more
This year we all dressed up. Our family theme was supposed to be “horror movie,” but Charlotte kinda put the kibosh on that with her hysterical insistence on being Elsa. Or did she? “The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.” -Roger Ebert Exhibit A: Elsa and Jack Let’s talk about a movie in which the menacing main character is a danger to family members,... Read more
Charlotte: (clad in her hastily-assembled All Saint’s Day costume, composed of a Cinderella dress thinly disguised with a variety of scarves wound around her shoulders and head) “What do you think, Daddy? Do I look like St. Elizabeth of Hungary?” The Ogre: “Actually, you look more like that creepy little girl in Dune.” Charlotte: “Was she a saint?” Err. Not exactly, no. Happy Halloween! I’ll be back later to show you our awesome costumes, and the amazing shirt my amazing... Read more
Dear Intellectual Elite, When I read the news these days, I am afraid. Not so much of Ebola exactly, but of the way our country is drawing lines in the sand so carelessly — lines that are becoming fault lines, fracturing and splitting apart any sense of fealty we might have had left. It’s true that most of the country is terrified of Ebola, though not entirely without reason. It’s also true that those fears are being magnified by sensationalistic... Read more
Leah Libresco is hosting a symposium on the ways that parishes can be more welcoming to their many and varied parishioners. The symposium is a kind of collective response to Kat’s post on being ignored as a single parent during the Synod for the Family. It’s so unbelievably isolating being a single parent in the Church. Where exactly do we fit in? We are not singles eligible for a religious life, we aren’t available to meet during the day for... Read more
I’ll be on Drew Mariani’s show this afternoon to discuss Sr. Cristina’s cover of “Like a Virgin.” In an effort to make sure I don’t sound like blubbering moron, I spent the weekend thinking long and hard about the song and its cultural implications. Catholics were generally favorable toward Sr. Cristina’s appearance on The Voice back in March, but the response to her first single has been markedly different. Some think it crosses the line, that it “reflects a lack... Read more
I love Sister Cristina. The clip of her reducing J-Ax to tears on The Voice is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. That being said, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this: I wanted to like it really, really badly. When I saw the post from Deacon Greg, I was ready to love it in ALL CAPS! But then I watched the video, and I just felt kinda…meh. It’s not that it’s scandalizing (because it’s... Read more
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but the Toast has already provided me with the #1 reason I’m grateful for the internet this year. Seriously, THIS. I love you = we are both on the Internet, and we agree about something shut it all down = I’m going to stay right here and not leave the Internet and keep reading this NSFW = this is a picture of food #tcot = I have not talked to an actual conservative since high... Read more
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