ZORAK’s post about her journey to the Catholic Church has gotten me thinking about my own bizarro path to Rome. I’m not going to blog about it now, because I haven’t got the mental energy (operating on four hours of sleep, blah)… but I did write a table of contents! So you can experience some small portion of my ongoing wigginess. EARLIEST MEMORIES: Consciousness of personal sin. I wrote a bit about that here. Didn’t name it as sin because... Read more

CHARLES MURTAUGH (and other people into the “sin and the Sopranos” discussion) should get a kick out of this. Pray for him. (Link via Amy Welborn.) Read more

…AND IT FELT LIKE A KISS? So I’d read those articles claiming that women commit domestic violence as often as men–you know, the ones Instapundit links–and I’d smell something not quite right. Something decidedly rotten, really, since the stats seemed to bear no relationship to the world I know out here in real reality. But I never bothered to go looking for the truth. Ampersand did. Go read his excellent, footnoted post. Read more

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INTERROBANG! But also, ha ha, I am MORE OMINOUS THAN YOU! How ominous are you? Read more

I’M BACK to full-scale blogging. Tomorrow will be hectic, but Saturday and following expect lots of blogly goodness. Read more

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE REGISTER! Read more

“Your beauty and charms are beyond compare. But can you weave a saddle blanket from the wool of a Nubian goat? Or plait a horsehair rope?” “No! No! Neither will I chew tanned horsehide until it becomes soft and pliable for the shoes of a desert scavenger!” “Well, then, high and mighty princess, of what earthly use are you to a man?” –Jeff Chandler and Maureen O’Hara, “Flame of Araby” Read more

“DON’T BACK OFF”: The Charlotte Observer finds that parishes want a challenge–as long as it’s from Scripture, not from the random mental wanderings of their pastors. Link via Telford Work. Read more

ZORAK OF E-PRESSION ON “WHY I AM A CATHOLIC.” Straight-up and eloquent post. Read more

THE NURTURING NETWORK–practical help for women facing crisis pregnancies. Who are they? “The Nurturing Network is designed to meet the needs of all pregnant women with a special emphasis on assisting college and working women. These are the women for whom few, if any, resources had been made available until this mission of practical compassion was founded by Mary Cunningham Agee in 1985 following a mid-trimester miscarriage. It was in meditating upon this particularly painful loss that Mary began to... Read more