We explored the subject of women covering their heads at prayer and Mass a while back, and it was one of the hottest topics we’ve ever debated here. I am still covering, and increasingly comfortable doing so; I find that covering for mass has also made me more inclined to dress a bit more becomingly for mass. Nothing fancy (I am incapable of “fancy”) but I am dressing with a “Sunday Best” mindset, now. I even bought a skirt! I’m... Read more
Reflecting on The Wussification of the Workplace, reader Kris H. sends this along with the remark, “somehow, we all seemed tougher, back then.” Perhaps it’s because we’d immigrated, invented, got through “the war to end all wars” and a great depression, in the preceding decades. People in 1940 had gone through an awful lot to get there. Perhaps it is the relative (and much vaunted) “peace and prosperity” of our recent past that has weakened us unto wussyhood. We have... Read more
Noting that the press seems torn between being justifiably angry at President Obama for his dismissive attitude toward them (and his disinterest in press conferences and “transparencies”) and their instinct to lay down, roll over and let him rub their bellies while they pant, Allahpundit remarks: this relationship is the definition of co-dependency, isn’t it? Well, yes, we’ve pretty much established that the White House press corps and most of the mainstream media are the well-paid equivalent of the desperate... Read more
Few people in my family (and almost none of my friends) read my blog; I don’t mind it – people are busy, after all, and I’m not that interesting, anyway. But every once in a while, I’ll send my husband a link to something I’ve written, because I think he’ll enjoy it. Today I sent him this piece about the wussification of the workplace. He said “I thought it was well-written, but are you veering off, now, into other subjects?... Read more
Some nuns did a kindness for me, and I wanted to thank them with a little gift. A shortbread cookie recipe I’d recently gotten from my dear Mother-in-Law seemed to perfectly meet the case. She cuts them in a star shape, and they are thin, light and melt-in-your-mouth good. After searching the kitchen for an hour looking for an old cookie cutter, my husband reminded me that I’d done one of my periodic sweeps, where anything I determine to have... Read more
Reader Brian J, who has supplied this site with mock movie posters and fun graphics (always surprising me; I don’t think I’ve ever asked him to do any of it for me) has expanded his repertoire to include flash animation. My first video! Such a star, I am! And in answer to the age-old question, I guess . . . a chamber pot? Must have been ugly outside the window. Thanks, Brian! UPDATE: To those who can’t make it out,... Read more
:::WARNING: The very funny and insightful essay and link I am about to present to you contains a variation of the “S” word and several renderings of the “F” word. If you cannot handle the “F” word in any context, please do not follow this link. Go write me a letter about how scandalized you are that any Catholic site would dare to suggest that you read something that contains the “F” word, and then, rather than tempting yourself away... Read more
And a special “thank you!” to the Concord Pastor who does the work of making the prayers and meditations available! Read more
Suspecting that only Carolina Cannonball is more fixated than I on all things nun-ish, I bring you something pretty extraordinary, via Kansas Catholic, four pages (count ’em, four) pages of pictures detailing the solemn professions of eleven Benedictines of Mary, in the Extraordinary Rite: As they are still forming, and in the process of building their monastery, the Benedictines of Mary are not strictly enclosed yet, but you still might call them “old school” Benedictines. Their day-to-day keeps the Rule... Read more
The Miss America Pageant, and a few others, like to say that they are all about showcasing talent and poise for the purpose of awarding scholarships. Fine. Preserving polite fiction is part of what makes society run. The Miss USA Pageant has never voiced a pretension to higher thought–it is a celebration of the superficial–so it is a bit odd that for the second year in a row, a pageant judge has asked a rather deep question with an apparent... Read more
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