She does her own illustrations! I have reader Brian J who occasionally makes great graphics for this blog. Carolina Cannonball has a guy who makes videos! In terms of cuteness in Catholic Bloggery (with an added gift of finding great photographs we would otherwise never see) the girl is in a class all by herself. And I seriously think she should design a line of greeting cards using her terrible/adorable illustrations. I would buy them! Read more
Earlier, we talked about Barbara Walters, having heart surgery at age 80. Check out this woman, Janey Cutler. She’s also 80. And she sings. Janey Cutler She sounds like an older and more stable Judy Garland. Fabulous. Notice that she says she’s had “a great life, seven kids!” Janey is no fool; she knows what’s what. Priorities in order. She’s not looking back and saying, “if only…” I love her answer to Simon Cowell’s question, too. Perfect. Thanks to Pianogirl... Read more
A while back, I noticed that whoever runs Tiny URL had a paypal button. Just a small paypal button with the word “donate” similar to the buttons on thousands of blogs, including this one. But when I saw the button, I thought: Wow. Thanks to twitter, this site must get hundreds of thousands of hits per week. Imagine if everyone who used this service just donated one dollar. If every user sent one dollar, one time, they site would do... Read more
Laughter can be both medicine and a weapon. Check out the Attack of the 50 Ft. Pelosi. And when it’s over, hit “more.” Very funny stuff. And hard-hitting, in its way, particularly the one of Obama on the golf course, which perfectly captures his tone in that speech. Read more
Barbara Walters is going to get a heart valve replaced. It is common surgery, but no small thing. A friend of mine recently had her mitral valve replaced with a porcine valve (her sister now cruelly oinks whenever they meet), and although she was very fit, the recovery was lengthy and challenging. Walters is 80, so I cannot imagine she’ll be doing jigs anytime too soon, but apparently she does think to continue working, after her recovery: Walters added that... Read more
“The fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism. Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil. Man is reduced to a... Read more
Sometimes the things you done a thousand times can bring new results; the prayers you’ve said a million times bring new insight. My Oratory has an assortment of Holy Icons and small pewter statues, an old standing crucifix, and a second-class relic of St. Philip Neri, who is my Patron for this year. Generally, as I begin my morning prayer, I ponder what is before me. Currently I have an Icon of the Resurrection up, and before it a small... Read more
My Mother’s Day gift to all: your own personal link to Pope Paul VI’s much-jeered-at, barely-read, and quite propheticHumanea Vitea Neo-neocon writes on the 50th Anniversary of the Pill – it’s a must-read. Another side of the coin: We have now had several generations growing up with either missing parents or well-meaning but “barely-there” parents. A lot of what we learn regarding intimacy we learn from Mom and Dad and Grandma. If they’re barely in the picture, from whom will... Read more
From September 2009 Mariette in Ecstasy And Christ still sends me roses. We try to be formed and held and kept by him, but instead he offers us freedom. And now when I try to know his will, his kindness floods me, his great love overwhelms me, and I hear him whisper, Surprise me. –Mariette Baptiste, Mariette in Ecstasy It has been a long time since I first read it, but last night I found within this wonderful and strange... Read more
Have you had enough? I have. I’m having one of those weeks where I feel like The Great Unread, like I am the mutt who cannot pass muster with the pedigrees. Well, okay, I am a mutt. But I’m God’s Own Mutt, and quite privileged. Yes, I am privileged to write for a modest living, which is so much better than having to manage an office, for one. So, before I start giving in to the “why do I bother,... Read more
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